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    Pi in Mathematics

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    of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in the Euclidean plane; this is the same value as the ratio of a circle’s area to the square of its radius. It is approximately equal to 3.14159265 in the usual decimal notation. Many formulae from mathematics‚ science‚ and engineering involve π‚ which makes it one of the most important mathematical constants. π is an irrational number‚ which means that its value cannot be expressed exactly as a fraction m/n‚ where m and n are integers. Consequently

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    Mathematics C1

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    Surname Centre No. Candidate No. Paper Reference(s) Initial(s) Paper Reference Signature 6 6 6 3 6663/01 0 1 Examiner’s use only Edexcel GCE Core Mathematics C1 Advanced Subsidiary Monday 10 January 2011 – Morning Time: 1 hour 30 minutes Team Leader’s use only Question Leave Number Blank 1 2 3 4 Materials required for examination Mathematical Formulae (Pink) Items included with question papers Nil 5 6 7 8 9 Calculators may NOT be used in this examination

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    Mathematics of Investment

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    MATHEMATICS OF INVESTMENT Simple Interest If you borrow a car from a car rental company or if you live in someone else’s house or apartment‚ you have to pay rent. Like paying rent for the use of a car or a house‚ you also have to pay rent for the money you borrowed. This is called interest. People like Marco earn by charging interest on loans. Banks earn most of their income from the interest that people pay for the amounts they borrow. How much interest one has to pay depends on three factors:

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    Jordan Meisles Waggoner W170 21773 5 December 2012 Poverty’s Contribution Towards Mental Demise Poverty is a struggle for anyone to withhold their sanity‚ however‚ it slips under one’s radar and steers them to become mentally ill. As the lengthy music video for “Desert Song” performed by Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros opens‚ an impoverished yet innocent child is seen stranded in the desert. As the video draws a close‚ the little boy had been transformed into a troubled poor man who was

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    Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee: Their Contributions to Information Technology and the IT Industry Nowadays‚ information technology is playing a significant role in human’s life. Actually‚ it has only been developing for several decades. In fact‚ there are two key men who contribute greatly for this process. They are Bill Gates and Tim Berners-Lee. This essay will explain their contribution to IT and its industry and discuss it in several aspects. There remain several differences between

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    Mathematics Autobiography

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    MATH 101 Mathematics Autobiography Assignment My name is Casey Nicole Layton‚ and I am nineteen years of age. I was born in Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania on January 20th‚ 1995. My parents used to call me an ice princess when I was little‚ and they always told me the same story when I’d ask how I had acquired that name. When they tried to bring me home from the hospital‚ we got stuck in the family car during a huge blizzard and the winter chill got to me‚ and they used this fairytale-like story to explain

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    Business Mathematics

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    value for numbers This section aims to: 1. Discuss the numeration system and illustrate the place value of a number; and 2. Translate numerals into words and vice versa. ARITHMETIC Arithmetic is a basic tool in the study of Business Mathematics. The extent of Practical application whether social or business‚ makes use of the arithmetical operations. Such as addition‚ subtraction‚ multiplication and division. Most of the application included in the material are profit and loss‚ Depreciation

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    [edit] Mathematics [edit] Pi as irrational Aryabhata worked on the approximation for Pi (π)‚ and may have come to the conclusion that π is irrational. In the second part of the Aryabhatiyam (gaṇitapāda 10)‚ he writes: caturadhikam śatamaṣṭaguṇam dvāṣaṣṭistathā sahasrāṇām ayutadvayaviṣkambhasyāsanno vṛttapariṇāhaḥ. "Add four to 100‚ multiply by eight‚ and then add 62‚000. By this rule the circumference of a circle with a diameter of 20‚000 can be approached."[12] This implies that the

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    Contribution

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    Café de Coral (Chinese: 大家樂; Cantonese Yale: daai6 gaa1 lok6‚ SEHK: 0341‚ Grey Market: CFCGY) is a fast food restaurant group which owns and operates fast food chains and restaurants including Café de Coral‚ The Spaghetti House‚ Manchu Wok‚ Oliver ’s Super Sandwiches‚ Ah Yee Leng Tong‚ and others. Founded in 1968‚ the Café de Coral group opened its first Café de Coral restaurant in the Causeway Bay district of Hong Kong in 1969. Since then‚ the group has grown to operate over 580 separate outlets

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    Discrete Mathematics

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    References: Johnsborough‚ R. (2009) Discrete Mathematics 7th Edition. (N.D.) Binary search algorithm. Retrieved on March 24‚ 2014 from https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Binary_search_algorithm.html (November 24‚ 2011). Computer Algorithms: Sequential Search. Retrieved on March 24‚

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