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02373cam a2200337Ii 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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ocm1176517820 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20250203144019.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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200726r20212019enk e 000 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0008444498 |
| Qualifying information |
(paperback) |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780008444495 |
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(paperback) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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(OCoLC)1176517820 |
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(OCoLC)on1176517820 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
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YDX |
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UKMGB |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCF |
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OCO |
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OCLCO |
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OCL |
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MiTN |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
QA93 |
| Item number |
.E278 2021 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
510 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| Classification number |
510 |
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E |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Eastaway, Robert, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Maths on the back of an envelope : |
| Remainder of title |
clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Rob Eastaway. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
London : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
HaperCollinsPublishers, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2021. |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
vi, 201 pages ; |
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21 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia. |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"First published by HarperCollinsPublishers 2019." |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Does that statistic make sense? How much will this round of drinks come to? And what are the chances of winning the lottery? Twice? Learn how to do complex maths with nothing but the back of an envelope, a pencil and some good old-fashioned brain power. Doing mathematics without a calculator seems like an unnecessary feat in the twenty-first century. These clever little electronic devices have helped to take away the drudgery of arithmetic, and given all of us the power to perform in a few seconds what might previously have taken hours to work out. But much of the time, we don't need the exact answer with its endless decimal points - we just need to know whether something is in the right ballpark. Rob Eastaway's clever mathematical techniques do exactly that, as he takes an entertaining look at how to figure without a calculator. From spotting misleading statistics in the news and bad deals, to estimating how long you'll be standing in that slowly crawling queue, this book is packed with amusing anecdotes and handy back-of-the-envelope calculations for every situation. Most importantly, this book is a timely and welcome reminder that sometimes our own brain is the best tool we have to deal with numbers. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Arithmetic |
| Form subdivision |
Popular works. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Mathematics |
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Popular works. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
4226 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Anecdotes. |
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lcgft. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Instructional and educational works. |
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lcgft. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
28 |