Understand the replacement chain method, a crucial capital budgeting tool for comparing projects with different life spans. Explore how it works, its requirements, and alternatives.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

The Danish author Solvej Balle’s experimental opus reframes the tedium of contemporary life as a source of unexpected wonders. Solvej Balle in her garden in Denmark.Credit...Giulia Mangione for The ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

In the traditional two-step method, the homogenization group constants of the fuel assembly are calculated using the assumption of reflective boundary conditions. In the hybrid two-step method used in ...

President Donald Trump’s massive tariffs announced on dozens of nations Wednesday were pitched as “reciprocal,” matching what other countries charge the United States dollar for dollar, even taking ...

ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. is a news editor with ...

Following President Donald Trump's announcement of reciprocal tariffs on dozens of America's trading partners, many questioned how the administration had calculated the rates at which to levy each ...

Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day. By Hilary Leichter Hilary Leichter is the author of the novels “Temporary” and “Terrace Story.

Garmin has announced the Approach S44 and S50 golf watches, plus a CT1 club attachment tracker and an Approach G20 Solar handheld tracker. Earlier this month I said the Instinct 3 completed Garmin’s ...

Several major retailers in the U.S. use a century-old accounting practice known as “the retail inventory method,” which relies on retail prices to estimate inventory, even though it fails to take full ...