ground (5). Because of this‚ research has found that the Babylonians made a number system to represent livestock‚ produce‚ and their basic way of life. According to Elanor Robson‚ they used “…small clay ‘tokens’ or counters’‚ made into various geometric...shapes” (2) . For them‚ each counter had both a qualitative and a quantitative meaning. So‚ there was actually not a one-to-one correspondence and this leads to the belief that the earliest mathematics by the Babylonians must not have been for
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on investment ? 3) A stock has had returns of 3 per cent ‚38 per cent ‚ 21 per cent ‚-15 per cent ‚29 per cent and -13 percent over the last six years. What are the arithmetic and geometric returns for the stock ? 4) A stock has had the following year end prices and dividends .Calculate the arithmetic and geometric returns for the stock ? Year Price Dividend 1 $60.18 2 73.66 $0.60 3 94.18 0.64 4 89.35 0.72 5 78.49 0.80 6 95.05 1.20 Risk Return and Security Market Line
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The design in the corner is a piece of the full design that includes many small floral designs and geometric patterns throughout. There are also floral designs included throughout. The signature Safavid blue on the tile is used throughout the piece. The Safavid style for tile making was developed in Iran from the 1500’s. It depicted human being and
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Clement Greenberg (1909-1994) was possibly the most prominent and influential art critic of the twenty-first century. Greenberg’s intensely influential focus was on the notion of “formal purity” and how that affected the work itself in a painting just being a painting and “orientating itself to flatness” as modernist paintings had. Additionally‚ Clement Greenberg found interest in Abstract Expressionism and how Greenberg’s strictly outlined theories on art would inspire artists of the Minimalist
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three-dimensional geometric solid whose boundary consists of plane polygons. In Greek‚ poly means “many” and hedron means “face”. The polygons which bound the polyhedron are its faces; the sides of these faces are the edges and their vertices are the vertices of the polyhedron. The faces‚ edges‚ and vertices taken together form the surface of the polyhedron. Examples: For polyhedrons below‚ tell the number of vertices‚ edges‚ and faces. Also determine the geometric name of the faces
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INTRODUCTION: A portfolio manager at North Point Large cap Fund‚ Kimi Ford‚ considers buying shares of Nike‚ Inc. for her mutual fund management firm. In the mid of 2001‚ Nike arranges for an analyst meeting to disclose its Fiscal year results and also to discuss on renewing its strategies to boost its sales growth‚ profits and market share which were all declining. To cope from the situation it decides to develop athletic shoes in the mid-price segment‚ enhance revenues from its apparel line
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Art throughout the many years that it has existed has been seen in many different ways‚ shapes and forms‚ whether it is a painting from the renaissance area or a sculpture from the modern era. Even some of the technologies and sports are considered pieces of “Art” although under the pop culture category‚ still a part of the art family. In the 1930’s there wasn’t anything like what we get to experience with social media and all the technology there is now. In fact the 1930’s was a part of the great
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On November 12‚ 2015 I visited the gallery Lyric Modern created by an exceptional artist named Hal Marcus at El Paso Museum of Art. My first thoughts of visiting a museum were “boring”‚ “unexcited” and I just imagined myself going one work of art to another and describing it as if it was the textbook. As soon as I stepped into the museum my whole perspective changed‚ and at the end of the visit I had a different mindset. Lyric Modern was an outstanding exhibition‚ I did not only describe each composition
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Methods of Projection I. Arithmetic Straight Line Yc = a + Yi – 1 Where: Yc = initial Value (1st year) Yn = Final Value (last year) N = number of years Yi = value for the year past a = Yn - Yc N – 1 = 5975147 – 5413182 5 – 1 = 140‚ 491.25 Historical Values | |Y |a |Yi – 1
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Measuring Earth with a Stick Have you ever heard of the Greek mathematician and astronomer Eratosthenes? His name is probably best known among astronomers. Why do they think so highly of him? Eratosthenes was born about 276 B.C.E. and received some of his education in Athens‚ Greece. He spent a good part of his life‚ however‚ in Alexandria‚ Egypt‚ which at that time was under Greek rule. In about 200 B.C.E.‚ Eratosthenes set out to determine the dimensions of the earth by using a simple stick
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