Crunching numbers
Title:
Crunching numbers
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Discusses the tools and math strategies that scientists use to work with large numbers, explores how the strategies of estimating and rounding make large numbers easier to work with, and identifies some uses of supercomputers.
Year Published:
2004
Series:
Volume:
Math Behind the Science
Physical Description:
24 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 23 cm.
Note:
"Estimating, data analysis"--Cover.
"National Geographic reading expeditions"--Cover.
Contents:
Numbers that boggle the mind -- Millions of monarchs -- Simple cells -- The ultimate number crunchers -- Math mentor: words count! -- Math notebook -- Glossary.
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ISBN:
9780792245926
Publisher:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2004.
