Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

Today the Standard publishes a ready reckoner calculator to help readers to work out whether they will be better or worse off once all the measures announced come into effect. More than 1.7 million ...

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has confirmed that the use of calculators, whether physical, scientific, or on-screen, will not be allowed at the upcoming Joint ...

JEE Main 2026: Calculators will not be allowed during the conduct of the JEE Main 2026, the National Testing Agency has now made clear, correcting a typographic error ...

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has clarified that a virtual calculator will not be available for JEE Main 2026. An earlier mention in the Information Bulletin was ...

The National Testing Agency confirmed on Sunday that calculators will not be available during the JEE Main in 2026. The NTA had made waves last week after announcing that candidates would get access ...

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has issued a clarification regarding the use of a virtual or on-screen calculator during the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Main 2026, confirming that ...

It’s always been a rule in schools that phones aren’t allowed to be used in classrooms. This same rule existed when I was in high school back in the late 2010s, and the same rule exists now. Just from ...

Microsoft Excel’s mathematical capabilities often go far beyond the needs of most everyday users. However, Excel’s built-in statistical functions make it an essential tool for anyone who works with ...

For-profit hospitals provide most inpatient physical therapy but tend to have worse readmission rates to general hospitals. Medicare doesn’t tell consumers about troubling inspections. By Jordan Rau ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

Calculate annual % change by dividing start by end value, raising to inverse years, minus one, times 100. Ex: a drop from $15M to $10M over 2 years is a 18.4% average annual decline. This calculation ...