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 ...
Nowhere is this tendency toward round numbers more prevalent than on lists, and nowhere are lists more prevalent than on the Internet. Recently, marketing scholars Mathew S. Isaac of Seattle ...
The method used to round numbers in accounting may portray an accurate or inaccurate appraisal of a company's financial condition. The amount of error increases with ...
The media's fascination with round numbers on the major indices - especially the Dow Jones Industrials DIA - is one of the great mysteries of the investing game. When the Dow breaks through an ...
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 ...
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) ...
The ROUNDDOWN function is a Math and Trigonometry function in Microsoft Excel, and its purpose is to round a number down towards zero. The formula for the ROUNDDOWN function is ROUNDDOWN(number, ...
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 ...
Round numbers are handy—they’re easy to add, subtract and remember. But they’re not so helpful when it comes to crowdfunding. A new study by researchers Tse-Chun Lin and Vesa Pursiainen found that ...