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mathematics
1. The study of the relationships among numbers, shapes, and quantities.

It uses signs, symbols, and proofs which includes arithmetic, algebra, calculus, geometry, and trigonometry.
2. The systematic treatment of magnitude, relationships between figures and forms, and relations between quantities expressed symbolically.
3. The calculations involved in a process, estimate, or plan; such as, it may be a simple idea, but the mathematics of it are much more complex.

Originally, mathematics was the science of numbers and quantities; however, with the birth of numerous more qualitative formalisms (including, logic, propositional calculi, set theory), with the emergence of the unifying idea of a mathematical structure, with the advent of the axiomatic method emphasizing inference, proof and the descriptions of complex systems in terms of simple axioms, and, finally, with self-reflective efforts as meta-mathematics, the term has become the autonomous science of formal constructions.

Among the principal branches of mathematics are algebra, analysis, arithmetic, combinatorics, Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries, game theory, number theory, numerical analysis, optimization, probability, set theory, statistics, topology, and trigonometry.

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(mathematics is the deductive study of quantities, magnitudes, and shapes as determined by the use of numbers and symbols while every branch of science and engineering depends on mathematics; measurement is the process of associating numbers with physical quantities and phenomena and measurement is fundamental to the sciences; to engineering, construction, and other technical fields; and to almost all everyday activities)
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applied mathematics
The use of mathematics for a specific purpose, as in business or engineering.

This is in contrast to pure mathematics.

Measurements and Mathematics Terms

Terms that are applied to numbers utilized in math and various measurements.

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same sum everytime in mathematics
You can get the same sum of 1,089 every time you add certain numbers together:
  1. Take any three-digit number in which the first digit is larger then the last digit (654).
  2. Reverse the number and subtract the smaller number from the larger one (456; 654 - 456 = 198).
  3. Reverse the result and add this number to the result (198 reversed = 891 + 198 = 1,089)
  4. As shown above, the answer is 1,089 every time you use the procedures as indicated.
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