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Million Dollar Maths

Million Dollar Maths is an invaluable guide to the straightforward and outlandish mathematical strategies that can make you rich.

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How can you turn $1000 into $1 million?
What is the best way to beat the lottery odds?
When is the best time to take out a loan?
How did one group of gamblers bet on hole-in-ones to win £500,000?
How can maths help you set up a successful tech start-up?
What about proving the Goldbach Conjecture for $1 million?

Learn the techniques for growing your everyday finances, as well as the common mistakes to avoid. Discover the skills, both fair and foul, that offer an additional edge when investing and gambling. And discover why we often misunderstand probability and statistics — with troubling financial costs.

From making the most of special offers to utilising the power of exponential growth in your investments; from the art of card counting, to inventing the next Google, Million Dollar Maths is the quintessential primer to the myriad ways maths and finance intersect.
397 páginas impressas
Detentor dos direitos autorais
Bookwire
Publicação original
2018
Ano da publicação
2018
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  • mokeevaemmafez uma citaçãohá 9 meses
    you really want to get geeky about it you can use the more precise 69.3 as the numerator and use what is known as the Eckhart–McHale second order rule, which is this equation:
  • mokeevaemmafez uma citaçãohá 9 meses
    This leads to errors such as the sunk costs fallacy (in which people find it hard to give up on a lossmaking project because of the money that has already been spent on it).
  • sananoxfez uma citaçãoano passado
    So value is relative, subjective and fluctuating.
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