This paper presents a method to approach the implementation of a highly accurate logarithmic converter that operates with floating point numbers. For consistency purposes, it was necessary to adopt a standard to represent all floating point number. Hence, the IEEE Standard for Binary Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754) was the one selected. This logarithmic converter is based on Mitchell’s alg...

OBJECTIVE To review the impact of New Zealand's tobacco control programme from 1985 to 1998 on smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption, and to estimate the scope for further reduction. DESIGN Country case study; interventions, with outcomes ranked internationally across time. SETTING New Zealand 1985-98; for 1985-95, 23 OECD countries. INTERVENTIONS Between 1985 and 1998, New Zealand e...

Beauty and the Bulls: The Investment Characteristics of Paintings . . . . . . . . . . 2 T h e rate of increase in fine paintings prices was large when compared with many other investments during the 1970s and was extraordinarily large from 1977 to 1980. One prominent explanation for the behavior of fine painting prices over this period is the ability of this asset to hedge against uncertain inf...

Margaret Goldwater advocated for birth control [3] and reproductive rights [4] in the United States during the twentieth century. Goldwater was a socialite and philanthropist and was married to Barry Goldwater, US Senator from Arizona. She spent much of her life working to further the women's reproductive rights movement, which sought to expand women's legal, social, and physical access to repr...