Chris Gallant, CFA, is a senior manager of interest rate risk for ATB Financial with 10 years of experience in the financial markets. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

1 UCLA Department of Mathematics, Marina Del Rey, USA. 2 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA. Counting has always been one of the most important operations for human be-ings. Naturally, it is inherent ...

Consider this sequence of numbers: 5, 7, 9. Can you spot the pattern? Here’s another with the same pattern: 15, 19, 23. One more: 232, 235, 238. “Three equally spaced things,” says Raghu Meka, a ...

An arithmetic sequence is a sequence of numbers in which each number is obtained by adding a constant value to the previous number. Arithmetic sequences are linear. That is, they form a straight line ...

Abstract: This standard specifies interchange and arithmetic formats and methods for binary and decimal floating-point arithmetic in computer programming environments. This standard specifies ...