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Reading a resistor band by band Four bands, five bands, and a sixth that moves with temperature. Which end you start from is the hardest part. Has your salary kept up with prices? A raise that beats zero is not the same as a raise that beats inflation. The test takes one division. Reading an amortisation schedule What the first twelve rows tell you that the monthly payment does not. Two gallons, and two mpg figures that do not compare A British 40 mpg car and an American 40 mpg car are not the same car. The gallons are 20 per cent apart. The medium field decides where your traffic lands Analytics groups channels on one parameter. Get it wrong and the campaign shows up as unassigned, which is a report nobody reads. One more post than sections, and a third of it underground A fence run needs a closing post nobody counts, and a post is a lever rather than a peg. 5K, 10K and the pace table runners actually need Converting the distance is easy. Converting the pace is where the arithmetic goes backwards. Capacitors behave backwards, and RC timing is why it matters Parallel capacitors add and series ones do not. Pair one with a resistor and you have a delay and a filter at the same time. Volume, capacity, and the walls in between A 30 by 20 by 15 cm box is 9 litres of space and rather less than 9 litres of storage. Running a prize draw you can defend afterwards Being fair is the easy half. Being able to show you were fair, a week later, to someone who did not win, is the other one. How far a litre of paint actually goes The tin says 12 square metres. New plaster, a colour change and a roller each take a bite out of that. Where the 4% rule comes from, and what it assumes It is a finding from one study of one country’s history, and it answers a narrower question than it is usually asked.
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