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  2. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    A special case of Newton's method for calculating square roots was known since ancient times and is often called the Babylonian method. Newton's method was used by 17th-century Japanese mathematician Seki Kōwa to solve single-variable equations, though the connection with calculus was missing. [1]

  3. Casting out nines - Wikipedia

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    Casting out nines. Casting out nines is any of three arithmetical procedures: [1] Adding the decimal digits of a positive whole number, while optionally ignoring any 9s or digits which sum to 9 or a multiple of 9. The result of this procedure is a number which is smaller than the original whenever the original has more than one digit, leaves ...

  4. Fixed-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Fixed-point arithmetic. In computing, fixed-point is a method of representing fractional (non-integer) numbers by storing a fixed number of digits of their fractional part. Dollar amounts, for example, are often stored with exactly two fractional digits, representing the cents (1/100 of dollar). More generally, the term may refer to ...

  5. Modular arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Adding 4 hours to 9 o'clock gives 1 o'clock, since 13 is congruent to 1 modulo 12. In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus. The modern approach to modular arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his book Disquisitiones ...

  6. Floating-point arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    In computing, floating-point arithmetic ( FP) is arithmetic that represents subsets of real numbers using an integer with a fixed precision, called the significand, scaled by an integer exponent of a fixed base. Numbers of this form are called floating-point numbers. [1] : 3 [2] : 10 For example, 12.345 is a floating-point number in base ten ...

  7. Multiplication algorithm - Wikipedia

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    A multiplication algorithm is an algorithm (or method) to multiply two numbers. Depending on the size of the numbers, different algorithms are more efficient than others. Numerous algorithms are known and there has been much research into the topic. The oldest and simplest method, known since antiquity as long multiplication or grade-school ...

  8. Repeating decimal - Wikipedia

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    Repeating decimal. A repeating decimal or recurring decimal is a decimal representation of a number whose digits are eventually periodic (that is, after some place, the same sequence of digits is repeated forever); if this sequence consists only of zeros (that is if there is only a finite number of nonzero digits), the decimal is said to be ...

  9. 0.999... - Wikipedia

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    After defining multiplication, the decimal numbers form a positive, totally ordered, commutative semiring. [ 66 ] In the process of defining multiplication, Richman also defines another system he calls "cut ⁠ D {\displaystyle D} ⁠ ", which is the set of Dedekind cuts of decimal fractions.