In this post, we will show you how to round numbers in Google Sheets. Spreadsheet data often consists of decimal numbers that lie between whole numbers. A decimal number consists of a decimal point ...

I learned something surprising this weekend. A rule I was taught back in elementary school turned out not always to be true. In the process, I discovered something worrisome about myself and how we ...

The method used to round numbers in accounting may portray an accurate or inaccurate appraisal of a company's financial condition. The amount of error increases with ...

Use rounded values to estimate close the answer to a calculation. This is a useful non-calculator skill. Refresh your knowledge with these guides on rounding and significant figures. Rounding to ...

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In the world of head-to-head negotiations, the person who first suggests a dollar figure must do so carefully. The opening episode of Slate’s Negotiation Academy (a podcast series I co-hosted) ...

What's wrong with 171 anyhow? We impose a psychological order on the world that is not really there. Number is a great example of that. Numbers are a mathematical construct. To get the entire set of ...

Over the first four trading days of 2018, the Dow Jones industrial average, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq Composite closed in record territory every day. Each of the bench marks passed some ...

Tobias Levkovich is chief U.S. equity strategist for Citigroup Global Markets, in New York City. We talked with him about why the Dow Jones industrial average sometimes seems to hover around round ...