How little math Americans actually use on the job

Blue-collar workers generally do more advanced math than their white-collar friends.

In high school math class we would sit there listening while the teacher droned on about polynomial equations and thinking there wasn’t a chance you’d ever use any of it in life? Well, if you’re like most Americans, chances are your 17-year-old self was absolutely correct.

 

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A little algebra promises to boost bandwidth on wireless networks tenfold

The new technology is known as coded TCP.

Wireless bandwidth has been improved by academic researchers.  They didn’t do this by adding base stations, tapping more spectrum, or cranking up transmitter wattage, but by using algebra to eliminate the network-clogging task of resending dropped packets of data.

 

 

 

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