| Just a word | p. v |
| Lifetime Money Strategy | p. 2 |
| What's Future Money Worth Now? | p. 3 |
| Whither the Dollar? | p. 4 |
| Quick Look at Monthly Money | p. 6 |
| How a Retirement Plan Grows | p. 7 |
| Figuring Inflation into Retirement | p. 7 |
| How Much Life Insurance? | p. 8 |
| Forecasting Your Income | p. 9 |
| Are You Throwing Away a House? | p. 10 |
| Living on a Savings Account | p. 13 |
| Appraise a Bank Bargain | p. 14 |
| Strategy for Checking | p. 14 |
| Factoring Inflation into Income | p. 16 |
| How Much Can You Take Out? | p. 18 |
| Casing Inflation | p. 19 |
| That Old Bugaboo, Average Rate of Increase | p. 20 |
| The Mortgage that Pays YOU | p. 21 |
| Lazy Person's Withdrawal Chart | p. 23 |
| Money Now or Money Later? | p. 24 |
| Prepay That Mortgage? | p. 26 |
| Some Personal Things | p. 28 |
| Figuring Your Life Expectancy | p. 29 |
| Decisions: His Way or Hers? | p. 30 |
| Does College Pay? | p. 32 |
| Getting Pregnant | p. 34 |
| Does a Second Job Pay? | p. 35 |
| Junior Doses | p. 39 |
| Chart Your Biorhythms? | p. 39 |
| Interest and Saving | p. 44 |
| Yield and the Rule of 72 | p. 45 |
| Fooling Around with Old 72 | p. 46 |
| What's That Rate of Return? | p. 47 |
| The Day You Save | p. 48 |
| Figuring Simple Interest | p. 49 |
| Figuring Compound Interest | p. 50 |
| Interest Compounded Continuously | p. 51 |
| Effective Rate of Interest | p. 53 |
| Beware the Iron Law | p. 53 |
| How Much Goes for Interest? | p. 56 |
| When Interest Rates Change | p. 57 |
| The Interesting e | p. 58 |
| Comparing Retirement Plans | p. 59 |
| Interest by Calculator | p. 61 |
| How Regular Savings Grow | p. 62 |
| Saving: How Much per Month? | p. 63 |
| Figuring a Set-Aside | p. 65 |
| How Much Interest Are You Getting? | p. 66 |
| Investing | p. 68 |
| Finding Earned-Growth Rate | p. 69 |
| Tailoring an Investment | p. 69 |
| Local Taxes and Investing | p. 71 |
| Keogh? Ira? | p. 71 |
| Compounding Your Money | p. 73 |
| Retirement Fund Accumulation | p. 74 |
| What Does an Annuity Cost? | p. 75 |
| How Much Annuity Can You Buy? | p. 76 |
| What's an Annuity Worth? | p. 77 |
| Decoding the Phony "Average Return" | p. 78 |
| How Does Dollar Averaging Work? | p. 80 |
| Super Dollar-Cost Averaging | p. 81 |
| Value-Averaging Your Investment | p. 82 |
| What's a Tax-Exempt Bond Worth? | p. 82 |
| Income from Capital | p. 84 |
| How'd That Investment Do? | p. 85 |
| The Moving Average | p. 85 |
| How Much Does a Treasury Bill Yield? | p. 86 |
| Is Tax-Free for You? | p. 87 |
| What Percent Does a Stock Yield? | p. 88 |
| Figuring Percentage Gain | p. 90 |
| Total Return and the Deceptive Average | p. 91 |
| Understanding Bond Language | p. 92 |
| Other People's Money | p. 94 |
| The Everlasting Payoff | p. 95 |
| Credit: How Much Is Too Much? | p. 97 |
| How's Your Credit Rating? | p. 98 |
| Real Cost of a Discounted Loan | p. 99 |
| Calculating the Cost of Credit | p. 100 |
| Figuring an Early Payoff | p. 101 |
| Payoff Rule of 78s | p. 102 |
| When You Make Partial Payment | p. 102 |
| How Big Is That Carrying Charge? | p. 103 |
| What, Borrow on My Life Insurance? | p. 105 |
| Getting a Home Loan | p. 106 |
| Hiring the Money | p. 107 |
| How Much Can You Get? | p. 108 |
| That Important Percent | p. 109 |
| Variable or Fixed? | p. 110 |
| Those Tricky Points | p. 112 |
| Penalties, Options, Balloons | p. 113 |
| Closing Costs | p. 114 |
| Assume or Buy Subject To? | p. 114 |
| How About a Second? | p. 115 |
| The Land Contract | p. 116 |
| Trying a Mortgage for Size | p. 117 |
| How Much per Year? | p. 117 |
| Figuring a FLIP | p. 119 |
| Cost of a Mortgage Bargain | p. 120 |
| Hidden Side of a Home Loan | p. 121 |
| How Much Will Your Payments Be? | p. 122 |
| Setting Up a Payment Schedule | p. 124 |
| Spending | p. 126 |
| The (Relatively) Painless Budget | p. 127 |
| Buy Now? Buy Later? | p. 129 |
| How Much Inflation? | p. 130 |
| Puzzle of the Price Markup | p. 132 |
| What's That Price Increase? | p. 132 |
| A Look Today at Tomorrow's Costs | p. 133 |
| Realism at the Supermarket | p. 135 |
| Buy Meat Wholesale? | p. 137 |
| High Cost of Living Like a Dog | p. 138 |
| How Much Rebate? | p. 138 |
| Inflation and the Metric Trick | p. 139 |
| Measuring Things | p. 140 |
| Human Yardstick | p. 141 |
| How's the Wind Up There? | p. 141 |
| Power of a Wave | p. 142 |
| Weighing with Coins | p. 143 |
| Comparing TV Picture Sizes | p. 143 |
| Measuring the Unmeasurable | p. 144 |
| How Tall Is It? | p. 144 |
| Height by Trig | p. 146 |
| How Big Is a Tree? | p. 146 |
| Speed of Sound in Water | p. 146 |
| How Much Does It Slope? | p. 147 |
| Light Through a Prism | p. 148 |
| Estimating Water Flow | p. 149 |
| How Far Away Is It? | p. 150 |
| How Fast the Fall? | p. 151 |
| How Deep the Well? | p. 152 |
| The Metric Nickel | p. 153 |
| How High Is Up? | p. 153 |
| Measuring Height by Angle | p. 154 |
| How Big a Pinhole? | p. 154 |
| How Fast Will It Cool? | p. 155 |
| How Cold Will It Get? | p. 156 |
| Recipes for Odd Numbers | p. 157 |
| House Planning | p. 158 |
| Where To Live | p. 159 |
| How Big a House? | p. 159 |
| How Much Wind Can This Building Take? | p. 160 |
| Figuring Window Location | p. 161 |
| Costly Window Placement | p. 164 |
| How Much Glass? | p. 165 |
| How Much Solar Overhang? | p. 167 |
| Choosing a Solar Angle | p. 167 |
| Fighting Noise Pollution | p. 168 |
| Figuring Plumbing Plans | p. 173 |
| Building Things | p. 176 |
| Aggregate for Concrete | p. 177 |
| Figuring Ready-Mix | p. 177 |
| When You Mix Concrete | p. 178 |
| Framing: 16- or 24-Inch? | p. 179 |
| Expansion of Acrylic Sheets | p. 180 |
| Figuring Kitchen Cabinets | p. 180 |
| How Stout Is Rough Lumber? | p. 182 |
| How Big a Beam from a Log? | p. 183 |
| To Build a Winding Stairway | p. 184 |
| How to Figure Steps | p. 185 |
| Measuring at Home | p. 188 |
| How Big Is a Room? | p. 189 |
| Three-Four-Five Is Not the Only Square | p. 190 |
| When an Area Is Irregular | p. 192 |
| How Many Floor Tiles? | p. 193 |
| How Many Squares to a Roof? | p. 193 |
| Wallpaper: How Many Rolls? | p. 194 |
| Measuring for Paneling | p. 195 |
| How Much Paint? | p. 196 |
| To Draw a Contour Map | p. 197 |
| How Much Water Are You Using? | p. 199 |
| How Hard Is Your Water? | p. 200 |
| To Measure a Chair | p. 201 |
| Rafters and Beams | p. 202 |
| To Cut a Rafter | p. 203 |
| The Tangent and the Rafter | p. 204 |
| Beams: How Strong, How Stiff? | p. 206 |
| Strength of a Beam | p. 207 |
| When Beams Get B-I-G | p. 210 |
| Case of the Unequally Loaded Beam | p. 211 |
| Figuring Deflection | p. 212 |
| Anyone for Cantilevers? | p. 214 |
| Horizontal Shear | p. 216 |
| Around the House | p. 218 |
| How Many Degree Days? | p. 219 |
| Sizing a Wood Stove | p. 219 |
| Cord of Wood, Ton of Coal | p. 220 |
| Wood or Coal? | p. 220 |
| Comparing Furnace Efficiencies | p. 221 |
| What Does Heat Cost? | p. 221 |
| How Much Heat Loss? | p. 223 |
| Costing a Heat Pump | p. 225 |
| Heat Storage, Heat Loss | p. 225 |
| Trying a Cooler for Size | p. 226 |
| Meeting Insulation Requirements | p. 227 |
| Figuring Areas for Insulation | p. 228 |
| How Much Insulation? | p. 228 |
| Shading a House | p. 230 |
| To Ventilate a House | p. 230 |
| What's a Square Foot of Ventilation? | p. 232 |
| How Much Can the Sun Save You? | p. 232 |
| Capacity of a Solar Water Heater | p. 234 |
| What Will a Circuit Take? | p. 235 |
| What's a Switch Worth? | p. 235 |
| Working Out an Island Sink | p. 236 |
| Loading a Waterbed | p. 237 |
| Aiming a Satellite Dish | p. 238 |
| Operating Your Shelter | p. 240 |
| To Build a House | p. 241 |
| Managing a Mortgage | p. 244 |
| Shrink a Mortgage? | p. 247 |
| Your Depreciating House | p. 247 |
| How to Sell a House | p. 249 |
| Property-Tax Strategy | p. 250 |
| How Much Home Insurance? | p. 252 |
| Cost-Effective Energy Saver? | p. 254 |
| Fueling the Water Heater | p. 255 |
| How Much Heat in Firewood? | p. 256 |
| What Does Fuel Cost? | p. 257 |
| Mobile Home--Does It Figure? | p. 258 |
| Free Color TV? | p. 262 |
| Cork in the Eye | p. 263 |
| Workshop Numbers | p. 264 |
| How Big a Box? | p. 265 |
| How Wide Is This Board? | p. 265 |
| To Divide a Board | p. 266 |
| How Big the Bolt or Screw? | p. 267 |
| Confounded Compound Cuts | p. 267 |
| How Big a Pipe Wrench? | p. 268 |
| From RPM to SFM in One Jump | p. 268 |
| Shelf Math | p. 269 |
| Figuring Torque | p. 270 |
| What Size Wrench? | p. 271 |
| How Fat a Wire? | p. 271 |
| Radius of an Arc | p. 272 |
| How Tall Is My Grandfather? | p. 272 |
| Your Car | p. 274 |
| What Does a Car Cost? | p. 275 |
| How Long to Charge a Battery | p. 279 |
| What Do Skid Marks Tell? | p. 279 |
| Going Sixty | p. 280 |
| Analyzing Gas-Station Lines | p. 281 |
| Engine Displacement | p. 282 |
| Travel | p. 284 |
| Jet Lag | p. 285 |
| Tactics for Travel Funds | p. 286 |
| What Does Devaluation Cost? | p. 289 |
| Global Distances | p. 290 |
| The Tricky Average Speed | p. 291 |
| Your Clothing Size | p. 291 |
| More Dangerous Way To Go? | p. 293 |
| How Warm Is a Sleeping Bag? | p. 293 |
| Liters, Kilometers, Gallons | p. 295 |
| What's That in Real Money? | p. 296 |
| Finding a Mach Number | p. 298 |
| Thinking About Time Travel | p. 299 |
| Einstein: Mass at Speed | p. 300 |
| Outdoors | p. 302 |
| Weigh a Mountain, Measure a Pond | p. 303 |
| Water Over the Dam | p. 304 |
| Water Power Calculated Quickly | p. 306 |
| Horsepower in a Stream | p. 307 |
| Water and Kilowatts | p. 307 |
| How Far Can You See at Sea? | p. 308 |
| The Accurate Cricket | p. 309 |
| Camera's Hyperfocal Distance | p. 309 |
| Need a Ped Xing? | p. 311 |
| Acceleration from Gravity | p. 312 |
| How To Bank a Road | p. 313 |
| Underpass for a Bicycle | p. 314 |
| When the Tide? | p. 315 |
| How High the Tide? | p. 316 |
| Ship's Propulsion Power | p. 318 |
| How Far the Projectile? | p. 318 |
| Quick Height Measurement | p. 319 |
| How High the Shot? | p. 320 |
| How Long to Fall? | p. 321 |
| Where on Earth Is It? | p. 321 |
| Speed and Power | p. 323 |
| Figuring Air Pressure | p. 324 |
| Siting a Windmill | p. 324 |
| How Much Wind Is Enough? | p. 324 |
| That Wind-Chill Factor | p. 325 |
| How Many Stars? | p. 326 |
| To Rate a Quake | p. 327 |
| Figuring Binoculars | p. 327 |
| Fun and Games | p. 330 |
| How Far Can a Gamble Miss? | p. 331 |
| Will You Win a Trifecta? | p. 332 |
| Balancing a Tournament | p. 334 |
| The Cool, Calculating Tennist | p. 335 |
| Basic Blackjack | p. 335 |
| Doing Better at 21 | p. 337 |
| Actually Winning at Blackjack | p. 340 |
| Horseshoe Math | p. 341 |
| Business Decisions | p. 342 |
| Real-Estate Cash Flow | p. 343 |
| How Cash Flow Works | p. 343 |
| What's the Profit Rate? | p. 345 |
| Buying Earned-Growth Rate | p. 345 |
| Figuring Fiscal Ratios | p. 346 |
| How Durable the Building? | p. 348 |
| Counting Absenteeism | p. 349 |
| Conversions | p. 350 |
| Minutes and Seconds to Decimals | p. 351 |
| Heat by the Watt | p. 351 |
| Strength of Steel | p. 351 |
| Quick Metric: Temperature | p. 352 |
| Quick Metric: Length | p. 352 |
| Quick Metric: Weight and Volume | p. 353 |
| Measuring Angles | p. 353 |
| Those Metric Prefixes | p. 354 |
| Jumping from Log to Log | p. 354 |
| Do As the Romans Did | p. 355 |
| Decimal to Fraction and Back | p. 356 |
| Going in Circles | p. 357 |
| Parlez-Vous Hexadecimal? | p. 357 |
| Math in a Hurry | p. 360 |
| Breaking Down Numbers | p. 361 |
| Great Chief Sohcahtoa | p. 362 |
| The Squaring Trick | p. 362 |
| Halving a Mixed Fraction | p. 363 |
| Pint's a Pound | p. 364 |
| Illusion of the Shifting Base | p. 364 |
| The Catch-22 Deduction | p. 365 |
| Totaling Fibonaccis | p. 365 |
| Multiply Like a Peasant? | p. 366 |
| Easy Iteration | p. 367 |
| Smidgens to Oodles | p. 368 |
| What, Me Solve Quadratics? | p. 370 |
| Add-On Taxes and Take-Off Discounts | p. 371 |
| Depreciation by Sum of Years' Digits | p. 371 |
| Addition Helper | p. 371 |
| Add Without Carrying | p. 372 |
| Subtract Without Subtracting | p. 372 |
| Mix It the Midpoint Way | p. 373 |
| Better Way to Mix It? | p. 374 |
| Triangle a Problem | p. 374 |
| How Big Is a Triangle? | p. 376 |
| Approximate a Time Payment | p. 376 |
| What Percent of...? | p. 378 |
| Percents, Decimals, Fractions | p. 378 |
| Quick Fractions | p. 379 |
| That Tricky Percentage Increase | p. 379 |
| Chance and Statistics | p. 380 |
| Heads or Tails? | p. 381 |
| The Triangle of Chance | p. 382 |
| Probability by Subtraction | p. 385 |
| Flip a Coin | p. 386 |
| Zips and Plates | p. 387 |
| Learning from a Sample | p. 388 |
| The Rabbit-Sandwich Average | p. 390 |
| Standard Deviation Two Ways | p. 391 |
| How to Get Facts from Figures | p. 392 |
| Looking a Correlation in the Eye | p. 395 |
| Reality And Illusion | p. 398 |
| How to Draw a Fact | p. 399 |
| Hornswoggled by a Bar Chart? | p. 400 |
| The Illusory Line Graph | p. 401 |
| Figures Don't Lie? | p. 404 |
| How to Find a Prominent Number | p. 406 |
| The Prisoner's Dilemma | p. 407 |
| Conquering a Map Chart | p. 409 |
| Taking a Problem Apart | p. 410 |
| How Lethal Is My Warhead? | p. 411 |
| Those Awful Work Problems | p. 412 |
| Stretching A Calculator | p. 414 |
| Calculator Counting | p. 415 |
| Dividing into a Number | p. 415 |
| Percentages by Calculator | p. 416 |
| Square Roots and Diagonals | p. 417 |
| Cube Root and Beyond | p. 417 |
| Divide by Multiplying | p. 418 |
| Finding the Remarkable e | p. 419 |
| The Hyperbolic Rope | p. 420 |
| Squares and More | p. 420 |
| Calculating Reciprocals | p. 421 |
| Two Reciprocal Tricks | p. 421 |
| Finding Sums of Products | p. 423 |
| Coping with Big, Bad Numbers | p. 424 |
| Bigger, Badder Numbers | p. 425 |
| Memory at the Market | p. 426 |
| To Make a Payment Book | p. 427 |
| Easy Calculator Subtraction | p. 428 |
| Testing a Scientific Calculator | p. 428 |
| Calculator Superstretcher | p. 430 |
| Computer Does Numbers | p. 432 |
| Your 50-Pound Pocket Calculator? | p. 433 |
| BASIC Tips for Math-by-Computer | p. 436 |
| Table of Powers | p. 437 |
| Watch Your Money Grow | p. 438 |
| Anatomy of a Program | p. 439 |
| From Interest to Yield | p. 440 |
| How Big a Beam? | p. 441 |
| Rent or Buy? | p. 445 |
| Loan Payments Figured Fast | p. 446 |
| Print a Payment Table | p. 447 |
| The Mortgage-Payoff Miracle | p. 448 |
| Index | p. 451 |
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