Quick(er) Calculations: How to add, subtract, m. Lipscombe**

Oxford University Press

Finalist of the 2022 PROSE AwardsHow fast can you calculate? Would you like to be faster? This book presents the time honored tricks and tips of calculation, from a fresh perspective, to boost the speed at which you can add \u2014 whether a couple of numbers, or columns so long an accountant may faint. Find out how to subtract, multiply, divide, and find square roots more quickly.What's more, this book gives suggestions for how to find answers that are \""good enough\"" for tricky tasks like dividing by 17. It includes brand new ways to multiply and divide irrational numbers such as pi, e, the square root of 2, and the golden ratio. It has sections devoted to ancient mathematics, and the techniques we can borrow from previous and other cultures, in order to calculate more quickly. Examples, some\n\nQuick(er) Calculations\nHow to add, subtract, multiply, divide, square, and square root more swiftly\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery;