The Complete How To Figure It: Using Math in Everyday Life

by Darrell Huff

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"When should I roll over my mortgage?" "How much paint will it take to redo the house?" "How can I improve my first-serve percentage in tennis?" The math anxious and math avoiders among us can't even balance our checkbooks, but modern life regularly confronts us with puzzling calculations. Now Darrell Huff, best-selling author of the classic How to Lie with Statistics, offers easy-to-follow solutions (with and without a pocket calculator) to the thousand and one calculations we need to make day by day, from budgeting current expenses to planning for retirement, from purchasing a home to travel, sports, and entertainment.… (more)

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Fail. 'Course, it is pre-internet, when expensive scientific calculators could be stymied by big numbers. But most of what he talks about has little relevance to most of us, because: interest on a savings account is not going to approach 6%, unit prices are displayed on grocery shelves, the essays that didn't belabor the obvious assumed we know logarithms and trigonometry, and we're not going to build our own houses (at least not based on the info. here). The writing is engaging, the illustrative drawings are cute, but the book is irrelevant except in the far depths of the outback, perhaps.... (

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"When should I roll over my mortgage?" "How much paint will it take to redo the house?" "How can I improve my first-serve percentage in tennis?" The math anxious and math avoiders among us can't even balance our checkbooks, but modern life regularly confronts us with puzzling calculations. Now Darrell Huff, best-selling author of the classic How to Lie with Statistics, offers easy-to-follow solutions (with and without a pocket calculator) to the thousand and one calculations we need to make day by day, from budgeting current expenses to planning for retirement, from purchasing a home to travel, sports, and entertainment.

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