ISSN 1608-7143 OECD Journal on Budgeting Volume 7 – No. 1 © OECD 2007 Improving Public Sector Efficiency: Challenges and Opportunities by Teresa Curristine‚ Zsuzsanna Lonti and Isabelle Joumard* This article examines key institutional drivers that may contribute to improving public sector efficiency and focuses on one of them in more detail: performance information and its role and use in the budget process (“performance budgeting”). * Teresa Curristine is a Policy Analyst in the Public
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History Mathematicians have known about pi for thousands of years because they have been working with circles for the same amount of time. Civilizations as old as the Babylonians have been able to approximate pi to many digits‚ such as the fraction 25/8 and 256/81. Most historians believe that ancient Egyptians had no concept of π and that the correspondence is a coincidence.[4] The first written reference to it dates to 1900 BC.[5] Around 1650 BC the Egyptian Ahmes gave a value in the Rhind Papyrus
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sphere of radius R inside a cylinder‚ with the cylinder just touching the equator‚ and cut off at the height of the top and bottom of the sphere. (A cutaway view is in the diagram.) [pic] What is the area of the curved part of the cylinder? 2 Pi R x 2R = 4 Pi R2. This is found by slicing the cylinder surface and rolling it out as a rectangle. Now‚ it is NOT an accident that the cylinder surface is EXACTLY the area of the sphere. Take in small horizontal slice through the diagram. (I have colored
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History of Mathematics Compare and contrast mathematics in India and China in the period 213 BCE to 1425 CE. India and China prepared the main contributions in the past for mathematics that has influenced mathematics in today’s day and age‚ with numerous discoveries that would inspire the world of mathematics to an unimaginable degree. The period 213 BCE and 1425 CE is important to examine just because we believe that this was the approximate time of the Buddhist missionaries‚ were they travelled
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Project Work For Additional Mathematics 2009 Circles In Our Daily Life Name : Chuah Khoy Yan Class : 5 Daisi School : SMK Bandar Utama Damansara (4) PROJECT WORK FOR ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS 2009 - CIRCLES IN OUR DAILY LIFE CHUAH KHOY YAN CONTENT Title 1. 2. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Introduction Task Specification Part 1(a) Part 1(b) Part 2(a) Part 2(b) Part 2(c) Part 3(a) Part 3(b) Part 3(c) Part 3(d) Part 3(e) Conclusion Acknowledgement Page .. 1 - 2 .. 3 - 4 5 6
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equal to 12345678 9 87654321 You can remember the value of PI (3.1415926) by counting each word’s letters in “May I have a large container of coffee?” 21978 when multiplied by 4 is the same number with digits in reverse order... 21978 x 4 = 87912 If you add up numbers 1-1000 consecutively (1+2+3+4+5…) the total is 5050. From 0 to 1000‚ the letter “A” only appears in 1000 (“one thousand”). The billionth digit/number of Pi is 9. The digits to the right of the Pi’s (3.141…) decimal
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of the misfits‚ Early Auden. Early is one of the strangest of boys‚ who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains. When Early decides to set out to find Pi and the black bear in his brother’s boat‚ the legendary “Fish”‚ Jack decides to join him. Through the course of their journey the boys begin to realize that Early’s story for Pi is starting to become reality as they come in contact with characters like pirates searching
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the diameter. The result of this measurement is an approximation for the number π‚(pi). (John Murray‚ 1989 ) π = Circumference = C Diameter D An alternate version of this formula is C = π D Pi is not a rational number but for this experiment ‚a figure of 3.14 as an approximation of pi will be used when required. The value of the circumference and diameter
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Calculation of Pi Using the Monte Carlo Method by Eve Andersson Home : Pi : One Calculation ________________________________________ The "Monte Carlo Method" is a method of solving problems using statistics. Given the probability‚ P‚ that an event will occur in certain conditions‚ a computer can be used to generate those conditions repeatedly. The number of times the event occurs divided by the number of times the conditions are generated should be approximately equal to P.
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Vanderpool‚ is a story of wonder and following the stars. While relying heavily on the stars and constellations‚ it also relies on the immense development of its characters. The novel follows tennagers Jack Baker and Early Auden on Early’s quest to find Pi. As Jack is dragged along on this seemingly pointless adventure‚ it makes him think and better understand his life. Ever since his mother died‚ he and his father had been very disconnected and this journey through the Appalachian Mountains makes him
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