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Numbers, solved

Math

Percentages, ratios, fractions and statistics with exact arithmetic. Every tool shows its formula so you can check the work yourself.

What this covers

Percentages, ratios, fractions and descriptive statistics — the arithmetic that turns up in shopping, coursework, recipes, screen sizes and spreadsheets. Every tool prints the formula it used, so the working can be checked rather than trusted.

Which tool to use

Reach for the Percentage Calculator when one of the three numbers in “P% of X” is missing, and Percentage Change when you have a before and an after and want the movement between them. The Ratio Calculator reduces a pair to its smallest whole terms; the Fraction Calculator does exact arithmetic on fractions rather than on their decimals. The Average Calculator is for a list rather than a pair — mean, median, mode, spread. The Standard Deviation Calculator works that spread through step by step, from each value’s deviation to the variance and the standard error.

Frequently asked questions

Why do percentage increase and decrease not cancel out?

Because the base changes. Going from 80 to 100 is +25%, but coming back from 100 to 80 is −20%: the first is measured against 80, the second against 100. Both are correct; they are answers to different questions.

Do these tools round?

Only for display. The arithmetic runs at full precision and the rounding happens once, at the end, so repeated steps never accumulate error.

What happens with a zero denominator?

You get a clear message rather than a number. Dividing by zero has no answer, and inventing one would be worse than saying so.