Recent content by Jame

I know for sure that you are not as stupid as you're making yourself look right now, it's actually a classic mistake: to think the math is over your head and give up the logic and instead blindly follow what people tell you. Enough rant, sorry. You have already been given the solution. Look...

Great post by Sinjay! You have many good points. It's about trying yourself rather than waiting for people to come to you. Unfortunately this is the way most people's social life is built: by the accidental circumstances around them, coworkers, the neighbor, etc. With so many people in the world...

Think what the expression means! You have n-1 instead of n, so what? n is any number you want anyway. Call it m if that makes it easier.

I'm of the opinion that it's inherent in being intelligent not to realize it. Which makes sense if you say being intelligent is about being able to grasp things, and grasping something means that it is clear and understandable, often obvious. I'm trying to say that it's very hard to understand...

Both numerator and denominator are real positive numbers, i.e. so will the quotient be and therefore we know to take the positive square root.

If I was the property owner I'd be very tempted to make sure your friend's state was changed to something more peaceful than being in a wheel chair.

When I feel nervous I think of Bob Dylan singing that "Even the president of the United States sometimes has to stand naked". Henry David Thoreau has got too many, but this one inspired me more than most others: "A living dog is better than a dead lion. Shall a man go and hang himself...

The elements that make up the icy outer planets would evaporate under the heat of the sun and therefore can't make solid planets. These were instead transported outwards by various mechanisms. The distance at which the temperature is low enough for the ejected material to condensate is called...

Inspired by the recent thread on flying coffee grains I felt the urge to ask if anyone knows why coffee is so darn hard to clean up? It doesn't stick to the rag as most substances do. I'm assuming it has something to do with the grains' surface structure, but what kind of physics describes this?

Because the group of non-smokers who ALSO raise their voice about it, instead of just going somewhere else, is greatly over represented by know-it-all's. I don't smoke and think it's really stupid to do so, but I still have many other harmful habits and would nonetheless say I'm an idiot, just...

A friend of mine is very talented in mental calculations, yet he's doing social sciences and says he's never enjoyed mathematics at all. I'd say the key to mental calculation is having an ordered line of thought and not getting interrupted, which are qualities my friend possesses to a high...

I was full of impatience and intolerance for the bigger part of my life. A couple of years ago I felt as if something inside of me started to change, that I didn't care so much about everybody being right and if everything I said was logically coherent. It's easy to think that what people say to...

I'm thinking Mean Value Theorem. The integral equals \epsilon(b-a)(f_{n+1}g_n)|_{x=c} for some c in the interval [a, b] and 0 \leq \epsilon \leq 1 which approaches zero.

Wow I love his handwriting, wish I had a professor like that!

That's stupid. You never learned from your classmates when you had your education? Reading a non-professional's take on subjects that are usually handled by experts(who most often use the very same explanations as one another) can be very refreshing. I love to see a crazy new solution to...