In this post, we will show you how to round numbers in Google Sheets. Spreadsheet data often consists of decimal numbers that lie between whole numbers. A decimal number consists of a decimal point ...

Over the first four trading days of 2018, the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq Composite closed in record territory every day. Each of the bench marks passed some ...

In the world of head-to-head negotiations, the person who first suggests a dollar figure must do so carefully. The opening episode of Slate’s Negotiation Academy (a podcast series I co-hosted) ...

What's wrong with 171 anyhow? We impose a psychological order on the world that is not really there. Number is a great example of that. Numbers are a mathematical construct. To get the entire set of ...

Use rounded values to estimate close the answer to a calculation. This is a useful non-calculator skill. Refresh your knowledge with these guides on rounding and significant figures. Rounding to ...

Scientific American presentsMath Dudeby Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. In the last Math Dude episode, we learned the ins and outs of ...

Robert Breunig receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australian Treasury and the Australian Taxation Office. Australia’s tax system is needlessly complex, and that’s making it ...