What this desk is
StatGarden is published by one person rather than a newsroom. The desks are editorial identities used to show which standards a page was built to, not pen names for staff writers: no desk is a person, and none of them claims that a qualified professional has reviewed an individual page.
What a desk does say is how its pages are made, and that is a claim you can check: open any calculator it covers and the formula is printed on the page, the worked examples are generated by running that calculator rather than typed in by hand, and every rate or price is a field you set rather than a figure baked in by whoever wrote it.
How these pages are built
- The working is shown beside the answer, because on these pages the method is usually the thing being looked for rather than the result.
- Conversion factors are exact where an exact value exists, and the pages that convert areas and volumes carry the squared and cubed factors rather than the linear one, which is the most common way a conversion goes wrong.
- Date arithmetic runs on real calendar rules, including leap years, week numbering and the difference between business days and calendar days.
What it covers
Writing from this desk
Radians Are Not an Alternative to DegreesWhen Two Cycles Line UpA Ten Degree Rise Is Not Fifty DegreesTwice the Size Is Eight Times the StuffCircles in a Square WorldPot Odds Are the Only Ratio That MattersDice Are Not InterchangeableWhy Your Pulls Feel CursedThree Machines, One Constant, Four Decimal PlacesAstra and the Ten ProblemsAlphaDev Wrote Assembly Nobody Had Thought OfThe Other Half of FunSearch: Bin Packing