Hello everybody. :)
If any of you have seen the quiz show "The Chase", then you will understand the background to what I am about to describe. If not, here are wiki links for the original UK version and the similar US version.
My question is inspired by the "head-to-head" or "individual chase"...
For any triangle, there are 3 side-lengths and 3 internal angles and 3 (potential) coordinates. From your diagram, you may be expecting the one and only answer, or you may be tempted to think that there are 2 answers if you consider the order of ABC as being unimportant - but from the...
Thanks. Good to know. This is exactly what I was trying to hint at in post #8. Still not fully understanding your post #7 though!
No, not getting this at all. Why must n=2 be part of the base assumption?
The statement is true when n=1 (true for n=0, in fact - not sure I would reach out for...
I think I may be showing my inexperience here, but I'm struggling to see how the other posts are helping (although I'm sure they will be doing just that!).
But personally, my thoughts on it are:
...you have started by stating what you need to prove. Surely you should be stating what you...
Why is that? That surely just gives the length of the straight line from (0, 0) to (1, y). The curve you are looking for is not going to be of that form.
No, I didn't think it was a particularly great catch. As I'm sure you know, there are extremely simple functions that have discontinuities and yet are integrable. A simple step function, for one.