Scalene Triangle

A scalene triangle has no congruent sides and no congruent angles. That is to say a scalene triangle has no sides or angles which are the same.

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Multiplying decimals

When multiplying decimals:

1. Ignore the decimal point
2. Add the number of digits to the right of the point of the numbers you are multiplying
3. Starting from the right of the answer, place that number of digits before the decimal point (add zeros if you have to)

Example:

.2 * .4

1. Ignore digits so 2*4 = 8
2. Count numbers 1 and 1, so 2 total
3. Count over two from right of answer so 0.08

Now

0.03 * 0.004

1. Ignore digits: 3*4 = 12
2. Count digits: 2 and 3 so 5 total
3. Count over: 0.00012

also 1.33 * 3.44

1. Ignore digits so 133*344 = 45752
2. Count: 2 and 2 so 4
3. Count over: 4.5752

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Topology

Topology (Greek Τοπολογία, from τόπος, “place”, and λόγος, “study”) is a major area of mathematics that has emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as those of space, dimension, shape, transformation and others.

Ideas that are now classified as topological were expressed as early as 1736, and toward the end of the 19th century a distinct discipline developed, called in Latin the geometria situs (“geometry of place”) or analysis situs (Greek-Latin for “picking apart of place”), and later gaining the modern name of topology. In the middle of the 20th century, this was an important growth area within mathematics.

The word topology is used both for the mathematical discipline and for a family of sets with certain properties that are used to define a topological space, a basic object of topology. Of particular importance are homeomorphisms, which can be defined as continuous functions with a continuous inverse. For instance, the function y = x3 is a homeomorphism of the real line.

Topology includes many subfields. The most basic and traditional division within topology is point-set topology, which establishes the foundational aspects of topology and investigates concepts as compactness and connectedness; algebraic topology, which generally tries to measure degrees of connectivity using algebraic constructs such as homotopy groups and homology; and geometric topology, which primarily studies manifolds and their embeddings (placements) in other manifolds. Some of the most active areas, such as low dimensional topology and graph theory, do not fit neatly in this division.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology

Poisson distribution

In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a number of events occurring in a fixed period of time if these events occur with a known average rate and independently of the time since the last event. The Poisson distribution can also be used for the number of events in other specified intervals such as distance, area or volume.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

Radix and Base

In arithmetic, the radix or base refers to the number b in an expression of the form bn. The number n is called the exponent and the expression is known formally as exponentiation of b by n or the exponential of n with base b. It is more commonly expressed as "the nth power of b", "b to the nth power" or "b to the power n". The term power strictly refers to the entire expression, but is sometimes used to refer to the exponent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_(mathematics)

Sexagesimal

Sexagesimal (base-sixty) is a numeral system with sixty as the base. It originated with the ancient Sumerians in the 2000s BC, was transmitted to the Babylonians, and is still used—in modified form—for measuring time, angles, and geographic coordinates.

The number 60 has twelve factors, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60, of which 2, 3, and 5 are prime. With so many factors, many fractions of sexagesimal numbers are simple. For example, an hour can be divided evenly into segments of 30 minutes, 20 minutes, 15 minutes, etc. 60 is the smallest number divisible by every number from 1 to 6.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexagesimal

Decimals

Decimal notation is the writing of numbers in a base-10 numeral system. Examples are Roman numerals, Brahmi numerals, and Chinese numerals, as well as the Arabic numerals used by speakers of English. Roman numerals have symbols for the decimal powers (1, 10, 100, 1000) and secondary symbols for half these values (5, 50, 500). Brahmi numerals had symbols for the nine numbers 1–9, the nine decades 10–90, plus a symbol for 100 and another for 1000. Chinese has symbols for 1–9, and fourteen additional symbols for higher powers of 10, which in modern usage reach 1044.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal