,Introduction: Terminology, Basic
Mathematical
Skills and Calculations
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, Objectives
• Review the basic mathematics applicable in pharmacy.
• Apply the concept of significant figure in pharmacy.
• Apply basic calculus, logarithm and anti-logarithm to
solve pharmaceutical problems.
• Apply basic statistics (mean, mode, median, and
standard deviation) to interpret pharmaceutical data.
• Interpret a graph and straight line trend of data to
derive useful information.
• Review frequently used units and dimensions in
pharmacy.
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, Review the basic mathematics
applicable in pharmacy
• Integers
-3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3
Figure. 1: Ascending order of integers from left to right
• Zero and Infinity
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