While it's not as easy as tapping a few keys on a calculator, you can use Microsoft Excel to perform simple math, such as multiplying numbers. In order to do this, you'll need to learn Excel's ...

Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians. Around 1956, the famous Soviet mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov conjectured that this is the best ...

Multiplication of two numbers is easy, right? At primary school we learn how to do long multiplication like this: Methods similar to this go back thousands of years, at least to the ancient Sumerians ...

Since the early 1970s, Hewlett-Packard pocket calculators have proved popular with students, scientists and engineers. Most of their scientific calculators let you show more digits after the zero. For ...

This summer, battle lines were drawn over a simple math problem: 8 ÷ 2(2 + 2) = ? If you divide 8 by 2 first, you get 16, but if you multiply 2 by (2 + 2) first, you get 1. So, which answer is right?