According to research by the record labels Deutsche Grammaphon and Decca, classical music is being played faster and faster. Performances of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto, for example, are a third ...

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. It’s been a terrible week for the media business. All told, some 1,000 people in the industry across the ...

And how many of them are needed to build a house of cards? Just one — if you're willing to decorate it with decimals and call it science. A global analysis claims plastics are responsible for 13.497% ...

The digits in a number that have actual value. For example, in the number 00005208, the 5-2-0-8 are the significant digits. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction requires ...

Test & Measurement Europe. Download the pdf. Instruments such as this DMM display as many as 5½ digits of resolution. (Courtesy of Keithley Instruments.) When you count apples, oranges, or transistors ...

Who’s bigger: Washington or Lincoln? Hitler or Napoleon? Charles Dickens or Jane Austen? That depends on how you look at it. When we set out to rank the significance of historical figures, we decided ...

You’re reading Significant Digits, a daily digest of the numbers tucked inside the news. 13 to 21 years longer Large life insurance company John Hancock will begin underwriting only “interactive ...

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