We produce a self contained account of the relationship between the Gaussian arithmetic-geometric mean iteration and the fast computation of elementary functions. A particularly pleasant algorithm for ...

The Mathematical Gazette is the original journal of the Mathematical Association and it is now over a century old. Its readership is a mixture of school teachers, college and university lecturers, ...

In the investment world, it’s common to discuss average rates of return. It’s not sufficient, however, to simply add up historical returns and divide by how many there are. The proper way to calculate ...

The simple definition of a mean is that of a numeric quantity which represents the center of a collection of numbers. Here the trick lies in defining the exact type of numeric collection, as beyond ...

Each term in this sequence is doubling (multiplying by 2) to create the next term. Number sequences are sets of numbers that follow a pattern or a rule. If the rule is to multiply or divide by a ...

Learn about number patterns in arithmetic sequences with this BBC Bitesize Maths article. For students between the ages of 11 and 14. Finding the 𝒏th term of an arithmetic sequence Learn how to find ...