Truncation — In mathematics, truncation is the term for limiting the number of digits right of the decimal point, by discarding the least significant ones.For example, consider the real numbers:5.6341432543653654:32.438191288:6.3444444444444To truncate these… … Wikipedia
Truncation (disambiguation) — The word truncation has several meanings.* In numerical analysis, truncation is the term used for reducing the number of digits right of the decimal point, by discarding the least significant ones. * Truncation (geometry) is removal of one or… … Wikipedia
Truncation (statistics) — In statistics, truncation results in values that are limited above or below, similar to but distinct from the concept of statistical censoring.Usually the values that insurance adjusters receive are either left truncated, right censored or both.… … Wikipedia
Screw thread — Internal and external threads illustrated using a common nut and bolt. The screw and nut pair can be used to convert torque into linear force. As the screw (or bolt) is rotated, the screw moves along its axis through the fixed nut, or the non… … Wikipedia
Rounding — This article is about numerical rounding. For lip rounding in phonetics, see Labialisation. For other uses, see Rounding (disambiguation). Rounding a numerical value means replacing it by another value that is approximately equal but has a… … Wikipedia
Olympic-Wallowa Lineament — Location of the Olympic Wallowa Lineament. Is the OWL an optical illusion? The Olympic Wallowa lineament (OWL) – first reported by cartographer Erwin Raisz in 1945 [1] on a relief map of the continental United States – is a physiographic feature… … Wikipedia
Scribal abbreviation — Sigla redirects here. For the village in Poland, see Sigła. Text sample from an early 15th century Bible manuscript. Scribal abbreviations (sigla [plural], siglum and sigil [singular]) are the abbreviations used by ancient and mediæval scribes… … Wikipedia
Finite difference method — In mathematics, finite difference methods are numerical methods for approximating the solutions to differential equations using finite difference equations to approximate derivatives. Intuitive derivation Finite difference methods approximate the … Wikipedia
Numeric precision in Microsoft Excel — As with other spreadsheets, Microsoft Excel works only to limited accuracy because it retains only a certain number of figures to describe numbers (it has limited precision). Excel nominally works with 8 byte numbers by default, a modified 1985… … Wikipedia
Survival analysis — is a branch of statistics which deals with death in biological organisms and failure in mechanical systems. This topic is called reliability theory or reliability analysis in engineering, and duration analysis or duration modeling in economics or … Wikipedia
Numerical analysis — Babylonian clay tablet BC 7289 (c. 1800–1600 BC) with annotations. The approximation of the square root of 2 is four sexagesimal figures, which is about six decimal figures. 1 + 24/60 + 51/602 + 10/603 = 1.41421296...[1] Numerical analysis is the … Wikipedia
