IN this book the author provides and explains then use of two graduated scales, placed adjacent to each other for comparison and fixed together, on one of which numbers can be read off, and on the ...

In addition to length measurements, scale rules could be marked with aids for calculation. Perhaps the most notable rule of this type was Gunter's scale, which was similar to a sector or a slide rule.

Probability is a measure of the likelihood of events happening. The greater the proportion of times an event can happen the greater (or more likely) the probability. Events can be ordered by the ...

Keiran McLean: We’re in the office of world famous architect Zara Jones who’s about to reveal her new design. Zara Jones: Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you my ‘House for a Geometry Lover’. Keiran ...

Understanding the role of scale is critical to ecologists' ability to make appropriate measurements, to "scale up" from local, short-term experiments to larger areas and longer times, to formulate ...