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...think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through OpenLearn by filling out this short survey...The Moon: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you will be able to: retrieve, evaluate and interpret data and information about the Moon interpret simple tables express, manipulate and compare very small numbers...The Moon: 1...

...think of this most excellent Help unto Astronomy, viz., the Logarithms; but, my Lord, being by you found out, I wonder nobody else found it out before, when now known it is so easy,’ He was nobly entertained by the Lord Napier, and every Summer after that, during the Lord’s being alive, this venerable Man, Mr Briggs, went purposely into Scotland to visit him. During...

...think of any examples of when you might come across decimal numbers in everyday life? If you’re dealing with money and the decimal point is not placed correctly, then the value will be completely different, for example, £5.55 could be mistaken for £55.50. Likewise with weights and measures: if the builder in the last activity made a wrong measurement, the whole...

...systems (such as combining forces) using vectors perform simple algebraic procedures using vectors...Introducing vectors for engineering applications: Background - It is common in engineering for physical phenomena to be represented as vector fields. A vector field is a mathematical representation of a system that describes how a quantity, such as a force, changes over an...