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| Just a word | |
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| Lifetime Money Strategy | |
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| What's Future Money Worth Now? | |
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| Whither the Dollar? | |
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| Quick Look at Monthly Money | |
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| How a Retirement Plan Grows | |
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| Figuring Inflation into Retirement | |
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| How Much Life Insurance? | |
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| Forecasting Your Income | |
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| Are You Throwing Away a House? | |
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| Living on a Savings Account | |
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| Appraise a Bank Bargain | |
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| Strategy for Checking | |
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| Factoring Inflation into Income | |
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| How Much Can You Take Out? | |
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| Casing Inflation | |
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| That Old Bugaboo, Average Rate of Increase | |
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| The Mortgage that Pays YOU | |
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| Lazy Person's Withdrawal Chart | |
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| Money Now or Money Later? | |
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| Prepay That Mortgage? | |
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| Some Personal Things | |
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| Figuring Your Life Expectancy | |
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| Decisions: His Way or Hers? | |
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| Does College Pay? | |
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| Getting Pregnant | |
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| Does a Second Job Pay? | |
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| Junior Doses | |
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| Chart Your Biorhythms? | |
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| Interest and Saving | |
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| Yield and the Rule of 72 | |
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| Fooling Around with Old 72 | |
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| What's That Rate of Return? | |
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| The Day You Save | |
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| Figuring Simple Interest | |
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| Figuring Compound Interest | |
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| Interest Compounded Continuously | |
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| Effective Rate of Interest | |
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| Beware the Iron Law | |
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| How Much Goes for Interest? | |
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| When Interest Rates Change | |
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| The Interesting e | |
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| Comparing Retirement Plans | |
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| Interest by Calculator | |
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| How Regular Savings Grow | |
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| Saving: How Much per Month? | |
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| Figuring a Set-Aside | |
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| How Much Interest Are You Getting? | |
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| Investing | |
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| Finding Earned-Growth Rate | |
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| Tailoring an Investment | |
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| Local Taxes and Investing | |
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| Keogh? Ira? | |
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| Compounding Your Money | |
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| Retirement Fund Accumulation | |
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| What Does an Annuity Cost? | |
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| How Much Annuity Can You Buy? | |
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| What's an Annuity Worth? | |
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| Decoding the Phony "Average Return" | |
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| How Does Dollar Averaging Work? | |
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| Super Dollar-Cost Averaging | |
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| Value-Averaging Your Investment | |
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| What's a Tax-Exempt Bond Worth? | |
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| Income from Capital | |
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| How'd That Investment Do? | |
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| The Moving Average | |
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| How Much Does a Treasury Bill Yield? | |
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| Is Tax-Free for You? | |
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| What Percent Does a Stock Yield? | |
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| Figuring Percentage Gain | |
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| Total Return and the Deceptive Average | |
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| Understanding Bond Language | |
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| Other People's Money | |
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| The Everlasting Payoff | |
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| Credit: How Much Is Too Much? | |
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| How's Your Credit Rating? | |
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| Real Cost of a Discounted Loan | |
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| Calculating the Cost of Credit | |
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| Figuring an Early Payoff | |
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| Payoff Rule of 78s | |
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| When You Make Partial Payment | |
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| How Big Is That Carrying Charge? | |
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| What, Borrow on My Life Insurance? | |
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| Getting a Home Loan | |
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| Hiring the Money | |
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| How Much Can You Get? | |
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| That Important Percent | |
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| Variable or Fixed? | |
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| Those Tricky Points | |
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| Penalties, Options, Balloons | |
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| Closing Costs | |
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| Assume or Buy Subject To? | |
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| How About a Second? | |
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| The Land Contract | |
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| Trying a Mortgage for Size | |
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| How Much per Year? | |
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| Figuring a FLIP | |
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| Cost of a Mortgage Bargain | |
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| Hidden Side of a Home Loan | |
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| How Much Will Your Payments Be? | |
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| Setting Up a Payment Schedule | |
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| Spending | |
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| The (Relatively) Painless Budget | |
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| Buy Now? Buy Later? | |
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| How Much Inflation? | |
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| Puzzle of the Price Markup | |
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| What's That Price Increase? | |
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| A Look Today at Tomorrow's Costs | |
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| Realism at the Supermarket | |
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| Buy Meat Wholesale? | |
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| High Cost of Living Like a Dog | |
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| How Much Rebate? | |
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| Inflation and the Metric Trick | |
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| Measuring Things | |
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| Human Yardstick | |
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| How's the Wind Up There? | |
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| Power of a Wave | |
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| Weighing with Coins | |
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| Comparing TV Picture Sizes | |
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| Measuring the Unmeasurable | |
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| How Tall Is It? | |
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| Height by Trig | |
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| How Big Is a Tree? | |
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| Speed of Sound in Water | |
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| How Much Does It Slope? | |
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| Light Through a Prism | |
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| Estimating Water Flow | |
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| How Far Away Is It? | |
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| How Fast the Fall? | |
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| How Deep the Well? | |
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| The Metric Nickel | |
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| How High Is Up? | |
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| Measuring Height by Angle | |
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| How Big a Pinhole? | |
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| How Fast Will It Cool? | |
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| How Cold Will It Get? | |
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| Recipes for Odd Numbers | |
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| House Planning | |
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| Where To Live | |
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| How Big a House? | |
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| How Much Wind Can This Building Take? | |
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| Figuring Window Location | |
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| Costly Window Placement | |
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| How Much Glass? | |
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| How Much Solar Overhang? | |
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| Choosing a Solar Angle | |
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| Fighting Noise Pollution | |
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| Figuring Plumbing Plans | |
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| Building Things | |
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| Aggregate for Concrete | |
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| Figuring Ready-Mix | |
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| When You Mix Concrete | |
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| Framing: 16- or 24-Inch? | |
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| Expansion of Acrylic Sheets | |
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| Figuring Kitchen Cabinets | |
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| How Stout Is Rough Lumber? | |
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| How Big a Beam from a Log? | |
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| To Build a Winding Stairway | |
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| How to Figure Steps | |
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| Measuring at Home | |
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| How Big Is a Room? | |
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| Three-Four-Five Is Not the Only Square | |
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| When an Area Is Irregular | |
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| How Many Floor Tiles? | |
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| How Many Squares to a Roof? | |
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| Wallpaper: How Many Rolls? | |
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| Measuring for Paneling | |
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| How Much Paint? | |
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| To Draw a Contour Map | |
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| How Much Water Are You Using? | |
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| How Hard Is Your Water? | |
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| To Measure a Chair | |
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| Rafters and Beams | |
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| To Cut a Rafter | |
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| The Tangent and the Rafter | |
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| Beams: How Strong, How Stiff? | |
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| Strength of a Beam | |
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| When Beams Get B-I-G | |
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| Case of the Unequally Loaded Beam | |
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| Figuring Deflection | |
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| Anyone for Cantilevers? | |
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| Horizontal Shear | |
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| Around the House | |
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| How Many Degree Days? | |
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| Sizing a Wood Stove | |
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| Cord of Wood, Ton of Coal | |
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| Wood or Coal? | |
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| Comparing Furnace Efficiencies | |
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| What Does Heat Cost? | |
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| How Much Heat Loss? | |
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| Costing a Heat Pump | |
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| Heat Storage, Heat Loss | |
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| Trying a Cooler for Size | |
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| Meeting Insulation Requirements | |
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| Figuring Areas for Insulation | |
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| How Much Insulation? | |
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| Shading a House | |
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| To Ventilate a House | |
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| What's a Square Foot of Ventilation? | |
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| How Much Can the Sun Save You? | |
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| Capacity of a Solar Water Heater | |
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| What Will a Circuit Take? | |
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| What's a Switch Worth? | |
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| Working Out an Island Sink | |
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| Loading a Waterbed | |
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| Aiming a Satellite Dish | |
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| Operating Your Shelter | |
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| To Build a House | |
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| Managing a Mortgage | |
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| Shrink a Mortgage? | |
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| Your Depreciating House | |
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| How to Sell a House | |
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| Property-Tax Strategy | |
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| How Much Home Insurance? | |
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| Cost-Effective Energy Saver? | |
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| Fueling the Water Heater | |
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| How Much Heat in Firewood? | |
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| What Does Fuel Cost? | |
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| Mobile Home--Does It Figure? | |
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| Free Color TV? | |
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| Cork in the Eye | |
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| Workshop Numbers | |
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| How Big a Box? | |
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| How Wide Is This Board? | |
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| To Divide a Board | |
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| How Big the Bolt or Screw? | |
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| Confounded Compound Cuts | |
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| How Big a Pipe Wrench? | |
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| From RPM to SFM in One Jump | |
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| Shelf Math | |
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| Figuring Torque | |
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| What Size Wrench? | |
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| How Fat a Wire? | |
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| Radius of an Arc | |
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| How Tall Is My Grandfather? | |
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| Your Car | |
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| What Does a Car Cost? | |
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| How Long to Charge a Battery | |
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| What Do Skid Marks Tell? | |
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| Going Sixty | |
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| Analyzing Gas-Station Lines | |
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| Engine Displacement | |
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| Travel | |
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| Jet Lag | |
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| Tactics for Travel Funds | |
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| What Does Devaluation Cost? | |
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| Global Distances | |
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| The Tricky Average Speed | |
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| Your Clothing Size | |
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| More Dangerous Way To Go? | |
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| How Warm Is a Sleeping Bag? | |
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| Liters, Kilometers, Gallons | |
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| What's That in Real Money? | |
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| Finding a Mach Number | |
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| Thinking About Time Travel | |
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| Einstein: Mass at Speed | |
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| Outdoors | |
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| Weigh a Mountain, Measure a Pond | |
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| Water Over the Dam | |
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| Water Power Calculated Quickly | |
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| Horsepower in a Stream | |
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| Water and Kilowatts | |
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| How Far Can You See at Sea? | |
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| The Accurate Cricket | |
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| Camera's Hyperfocal Distance | |
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| Need a Ped Xing? | |
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| Acceleration from Gravity | |
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| How To Bank a Road | |
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| Underpass for a Bicycle | |
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| When the Tide? | |
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| How High the Tide? | |
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| Ship's Propulsion Power | |
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| How Far the Projectile? | |
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| Quick Height Measurement | |
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| How High the Shot? | |
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| How Long to Fall? | |
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| Where on Earth Is It? | |
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| Speed and Power | |
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| Figuring Air Pressure | |
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| Siting a Windmill | |
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| How Much Wind Is Enough? | |
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| That Wind-Chill Factor | |
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| How Many Stars? | |
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| To Rate a Quake | |
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| Figuring Binoculars | |
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| Fun and Games | |
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| How Far Can a Gamble Miss? | |
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| Will You Win a Trifecta? | |
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| Balancing a Tournament | |
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| The Cool, Calculating Tennist | |
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| Basic Blackjack | |
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| Doing Better at 21 | |
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| Actually Winning at Blackjack | |
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| Horseshoe Math | |
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| Business Decisions | |
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| Real-Estate Cash Flow | |
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| How Cash Flow Works | |
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| What's the Profit Rate? | |
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| Buying Earned-Growth Rate | |
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| Figuring Fiscal Ratios | |
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| How Durable the Building? | |
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| Counting Absenteeism | |
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| Conversions | |
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| Minutes and Seconds to Decimals | |
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| Heat by the Watt | |
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| Strength of Steel | |
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| Quick Metric: Temperature | |
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| Quick Metric: Length | |
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| Quick Metric: Weight and Volume | |
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| Measuring Angles | |
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| Those Metric Prefixes | |
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| Jumping from Log to Log | |
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| Do As the Romans Did | |
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| Decimal to Fraction and Back | |
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| Going in Circles | |
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| Parlez-Vous Hexadecimal? | |
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| Math in a Hurry | |
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| Breaking Down Numbers | |
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| Great Chief Sohcahtoa | |
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| The Squaring Trick | |
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| Halving a Mixed Fraction | |
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| Pint's a Pound | |
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| Illusion of the Shifting Base | |
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| The Catch-22 Deduction | |
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| Totaling Fibonaccis | |
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| Multiply Like a Peasant? | |
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| Easy Iteration | |
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| Smidgens to Oodles | |
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| What, Me Solve Quadratics? | |
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| Add-On Taxes and Take-Off Discounts | |
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| Depreciation by Sum of Years' Digits | |
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| Addition Helper | |
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| Add Without Carrying | |
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| Subtract Without Subtracting | |
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| Mix It the Midpoint Way | |
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| Better Way to Mix It? | |
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| Triangle a Problem | |
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| How Big Is a Triangle? | |
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| Approximate a Time Payment | |
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| What Percent of...? | |
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| Percents, Decimals, Fractions | |
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| Quick Fractions | |
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| That Tricky Percentage Increase | |
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| Chance and Statistics | |
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| Heads or Tails? | |
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| The Triangle of Chance | |
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| Probability by Subtraction | |
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| Flip a Coin | |
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| Zips and Plates | |
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| Learning from a Sample | |
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| The Rabbit-Sandwich Average | |
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| Standard Deviation Two Ways | |
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| How to Get Facts from Figures | |
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| Looking a Correlation in the Eye | |
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| Reality And Illusion | |
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| How to Draw a Fact | |
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| Hornswoggled by a Bar Chart? | |
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| The Illusory Line Graph | |
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| Figures Don't Lie? | |
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| How to Find a Prominent Number | |
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| The Prisoner's Dilemma | |
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| Conquering a Map Chart | |
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| Taking a Problem Apart | |
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| How Lethal Is My Warhead? | |
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| Those Awful Work Problems | |
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| Stretching A Calculator | |
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| Calculator Counting | |
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| Dividing into a Number | |
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| Percentages by Calculator | |
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| Square Roots and Diagonals | |
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| Cube Root and Beyond | |
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| Divide by Multiplying | |
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| Finding the Remarkable e | |
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| The Hyperbolic Rope | |
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| Squares and More | |
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| Calculating Reciprocals | |
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| Two Reciprocal Tricks | |
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| Finding Sums of Products | |
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| Coping with Big, Bad Numbers | |
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| Bigger, Badder Numbers | |
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| Memory at the Market | |
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| To Make a Payment Book | |
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| Easy Calculator Subtraction | |
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| Testing a Scientific Calculator | |
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| Calculator Superstretcher | |
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| Computer Does Numbers | |
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| Your 50-Pound Pocket Calculator? | |
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| BASIC Tips for Math-by-Computer | |
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| Table of Powers | |
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| Watch Your Money Grow | |
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| Anatomy of a Program | |
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| From Interest to Yield | |
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| How Big a Beam? | |
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| Rent or Buy? | |
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| Loan Payments Figured Fast | |
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| Print a Payment Table | |
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| The Mortgage-Payoff Miracle | |
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| Index | |