Mathematics Survey

I think I’ve mentioned before, but I have some family in Miami.  In fact, I travel there enough to visit that I actually have a small insurance policy in the state of Florida. My Miami Chiropractor is one of my favorite doctor’s that I’ve ever met for a few reasons.  To start, like me, he loves patterns and the way they influence our lives.

He was saying that he has found a new way to treat back pain and it seems to work based on his testing.  What he does, is as much about allowing movement as it is about lining up our spines.  He said that the vast majority of his patients which suffer a significant injury had some significant swelling before the injury occured.  He now tries to reduce that swelling before treating the patient at all!

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If you’re in charge of a network you can spend an infinite amount of money and resources in defending that network.  This is simply because there are such a huge amount of threats and numerous ways of defending them.  However clearly not many organisations are going to be able to write a blank cheque to defend their network and data however valuable it may be to them.  There is a whole branch of specialised calculations that have been developed to assess these risks in order to try and defend against them.

An interesting calculation is the Annualised Loss Expectancy (ALE) which occurs when a threat pairing can be expected to happen more than once in a specified year.  ALE is not just used as an assessment in network defense it is equally valid in models which involve shoplifting, bad debt risks and hundreds of different areas.  The decision that any firm must make is “How many ALE events can we withstand as a company?”.   For instance say you own a web based mail order business – downtime on your website has direct cost implications.  If we consider DoS attacks (a favorite against commercial web sites) – imagine each one takes down your site for an average of two hours and you can expect this to happen three times a month?  How much should you spend to defend aganst this.

Protecting against DoS is a very good example simply because there is no real limit on  the amount you can spend.  Here’s the formula for calculating ALE –

SLE x Annulized Rate Occurence = Annual Loss Expectancy

It’s quite simple when you look through it, simply the the SLE multiplied by the number of expected events.  The total and cost obviously depend largely on  the calculation of SLE.  How about applying it to a different scenario – perhaps the amount of wasted time by employees surfing the web in a given day.  Lets imagine 500 employees and they spend 25% of their time messing around on the web on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

$50/hr x 125 = $6250

To calculate ALE from this figure we need to determine that they waste this money every single week except when they’re on holiday (lets give them only two weeks off the slackers!)

$6250 x $50 = $312,500

Which is a serious amount of money wasted.  You could spend a small proportion of this amount in tightening up your internet gateway, make sure you put in restrictions and web filtering to block against the basic ninja surfing techniques and basically you’d be clawing back money lost pretty quickly.  

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There’s one thing for certain, if you have any inclination or need to improve your maths then the internet has the answers.  The web is literally stuffed full of maths courses, tutorials, explanations and puzzles.  Whatever your level there is no doubt that something will be available for you somewhere.  

For this article I’d just like to briefly explain the maths resources that are available on the BBC web site.  The BBC is truly one of the most outstanding sites on the internet, it’s my favourite without doubt simply because of the breadth of information available.  The vast majority of it is is free, however due to certain copyright problems you might have trouble accessing the BBC Iplayer site if you’re outside the UK.  If you do have this problem – check this post out which shows you how to circumvent the BBC geotargeting efforts – http://www.anonymous-proxies.org/2009/02/using-iplayer-abroad-viewing-bbc-via.html.

So what is exactly on the BBC web site?

Well perhaps the most impressive information is on the basic level which is stored on something called ’Bitesize’.  This is primarily a schools educational resources teaching basic maths like addition, subtraction  and multiplication etc.  There’s a wonderful show on the World Service including one called Figure it Out. If you’re an adult who needs to learn maths for a very specific employment related purpose then check out Learn Direct – which has 42 free online maths courses specifically to improve basic numeracy.

For everyday finances, there’s the BBC Raw Website which deals with everyday maths problems like evaluating loans, mortgages and stuff like that.

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Math is use in our everyday life constantly. Mathematical computation is something which we cannot live without. In the real life mathematics has great benefits for us like we can calculate easily and if we don’t know about maths we can not calculate easily. It plays a vital role in everyone’s daily life since the life of people dealt much on counting matters. Just Think about how can a certain person would possibly count the days, months, and years. For budgeting our expenses and organizing our financial assets daily is connected with math. But many can’t seem to realise that even in our daily business math does affect us more that just counting the coins at the grocery shop or calculating how big a carpet you want. Advanced mathematics are used in advanced softare tools such as business intelligence and analytics tools like the ones found at Analytics Tools which can help improve an entire business just by calculating various factores.

Certainly it is very important for life since it helps us to quantify all the visible and invisible things with which we are dealing in daily life. There are many uses of mathematics in real life most likely in jobs like accounting, banking , store manager or just working at a simple fast food store. It naturally helps us to have an objective views of different things around us which ewe dealt with. It helps our engineers, construction workers and even the carpenters making calculations about the things which are not physically developed like for buildings before construction or using analytics tools to see which part of a business is healthy enough to expand.

It helps us to have an idea that how much earning or spending has been done and would it be beneficial to do a certain activity or not. In today’s world mathematics is being applied everywhere like in the economy of a country, construction of buildings, marking and evaluation of persons. It would be appropriate to say that mathematics has helped a lot in achieving the fast speed life with all its comforts and delights. Maths is all around us. It is present in different forms; it is undeniably important that we take note of it like we do with modern business intelligence tools such as which can actually aid many large companies increase their economy just by using advanced math in order to show the proper data.

Things are measured or accurate due to maths. Mathematics has a prominent role to play in our daily life. We even didn’t realize that maths is involves in every sort of activities. Whenever we pick up the phone, manage the money, travel to some other place, unintentionally in all these things maths is involved. This is how mathematical factors affects the daily life of a certain human. We cannot deny that life will run smoothly without the presence of mathematics. Math is within humans life.

It is said that mathematics is said to be the mother of all sciences. It is absolutely mean that sciences that are evolved have a sound foundation in mathematics if we go further in debate it would be justified to say that the blessings of all these modern sciences and technologies are only possible with mathematics. There are many uses of mathematics in real life most likely in jobs like accounting, banking , store manager or just working at a simple fast food store. It is not all about formulas and calculations. Its a subject that has life in it. Mathematics is simple, interesting and delightful and also useful for you as a private person needing to find the size of your house, or the moderne business owner wanting facts about his company using analytic tools or business intelligence. Solving life problems is certainly related to math. In fact mathematics is involved directly or indirectly wherever we go and every thing that we may use.

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For most of the population, math is very much a love-it-or-hate-it subject.  For all the math lovers out there, however, there’s a great new tool that allows you to automatically calculate compound interest.  The interest calculator is a sleek new, intuitive web application that allows users to quickly and easily compute both simple and compound interest.

The subject of compound interest is an exciting one if you are talking about a bank account. When you are applying for a car loan or a mortgage, however, it is not as much fun. A compound interest calculator will show you the realities you face as holder of a substantial loan.

There are some items which are simply too expensive to pay for outright. These include homes, cars, university enrollment fees, or even braces for the kids. Depending on how much money you need and your current wages, a long term loan might be the only reasonable option for you. Interest added in this way is calculated against a new sum at each scheduled period, whether that is annually, semi-annually, or monthly. Interest applies to what is left of the loan. Although you pay more in the long run and can often feel like a hamster on a wheel when all you do is chase down interest, this does not always have to be the case.

For one thing, compound arrangements do not have to take you a long time to clear. Establish a quicker pay scheme from the outset. Certain institutions also allow customers to make extra payments without being penalized, or will even permit early completion for a small fee. Even this price will be less than the interest you were paying. Meanwhile, when times are tough you get to keep your car or house (and Junior keeps his newly straightened teeth) without having to worry about paying your loan off. Take a breather until your financial situation improves.

For the most part, banks benefit from this arrangement since it is hard to ever pay off compound interest on a five or six figure principal at a slow, steady rate. You really see this when you use a calculator. These are hosted by a number of websites that discuss mathematics and financial matters. Give the calculator your loan amount, rate of interest, the number of years you expect to be paying, and the fee schedule. With these numbers the calculator will tell you how much you need to pay monthly to complete this loan entirely.

Use this to ascertain the viability of your financial plans. Establish whether you can purchase a Mustang or a Honda. Decide whether or not to invest in a brand new model or a used one (remembering, of course, that a car depreciates in value from the minute you own it, unless it is a highly maintained classic). Decide whether you can afford a house with a Jacuzzi tub and bedrooms for all of the kids, or a townhouse where the kids will have to sleep in the tub. Compare your likely outgoings including utility bills, food, gas and other fees plus your new mortgage against the incomings you expect to be receiving. A compound interest calculator might influence a decision to continue renting for a while, or reassure you that a bigger house is accessible in the near future if you make some budget cuts.

Citations

Heather Collins – Quick IP Address Changer

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