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Undergrad What is the Second Moment of Area and How Does it Help in Calculations?
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High School Few questions about surface area and volume
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Undergrad Calculate Area of an Oval - Tips & Ideas
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High School Brain Teaser: What Do These Sequences Have in Common?
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Undergrad Inner-radius of a (convex) polygon
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High School How do I calculate the area of a square with 490 mm2?
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High School Where can I buy a math book strictly with questions for practice purposes?
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Undergrad Understanding Function Equality and Domain Restrictions
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What's the Most Creative Alternative Name for Statistical Mechanics?
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High School Origin of y=mx+b: Explaining Slope & Y-Intercept
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Undergrad Real Zero Bounds for Polynomial Functions
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Undergrad Why Does the Phase Shift in the Sunrise Equation Equal 10 Days?
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Undergrad The Philosophy of Proving Trig Identities
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Graduate How to interpret multi-power laws regimes
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Undergrad Ordinates of Zeros: Definition & Meaning
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High School Can You Connect 9 Dots With 4 Continuous Lines?
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Undergrad Solve Angle C: Is it Between A & B?
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Undergrad How many triangles can you form with 21 evenly distributed dots?
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High School Finding all divisors of a number
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Undergrad In Need of Interesting and Motivating Math Problems
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High School Find the radius of a circle from a chord
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Undergrad Tic-Tac-Toe on a Torus: Move First or Second?
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Undergrad Is the equation 4x^(2) + 5y^(2) = 2 solvable with rational roots?
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High School How Do We Explain the Multiplication of Two Negative Numbers?
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Is There a Forum to Discuss Isaac Asimov's Non-Fiction Books?
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High School How to Prepare Geometry Lectures for Mu Alpha Theta Competition?
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High School Unravel the meaning of the variables to find numerical answers
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Undergrad Fractals and Chaos: What's the Connection?
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Graduate Proofs of fast formulas for computing constant pi
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Undergrad Two different types of probability
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High School Really basic, simple concept question
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Undergrad Divide by one digit numbers by two digit numbers, and add to get 1
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Undergrad Divide each one digit number by product, and add to get 1
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Undergrad Calculate the 2d height of the rectangle
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Undergrad Solving Modular Arithmetic: x\equiv2 (mod km)
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Learning Catalan with MS Math 2007
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Undergrad How can I use information to draw a graph for trigonometric functions?
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High School How Much Extra Rope is Needed to Raise it One Meter Above the Earth?
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Undergrad Overlapped area between a triangle and a rectangle
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Undergrad Finding "a choose b" Numbers: A Quick Guide
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Graduate A Generalized trigonometric identity for Cos(x_1++x_n)?
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High School Solving x's & 2's: Foiling or Multiplying?
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Undergrad Can Pythagorean Triples Help Find Integer Roots of Quadratics?
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High School Why is Division by Zero Considered Undefined?
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Undergrad Can surds upon surds be simplified?
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Graduate How to Resolve Singular Matrix Error in COMSOL Transient Solver?
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High School Are e, pi, and i the most important non-integer numbers in mathematics?
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High School Why is it so important to rationalize radicals in the denominator?
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Graduate Grand unified theory that is being researched in mathematics?
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Undergrad How can I make myself like math more?
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Graduate Heavy tools to study apparently simple structrures or objects?
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Undergrad Octahedron Problem: How Many Color Patterns?
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High School What's wrong with these equations?
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High School Getting the multiplier, multiplicand and the product with U’s
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Undergrad What digits satisfy (abcd)*(efghi) = acgefhibd?
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Undergrad Multiplying six by two gets twelve
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Undergrad Calculating the Number of Digits in x
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Undergrad Evolution of Number Names in the Base 10 System
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Graduate Is there a correlation between cn and c-n in sawtooth Fourier?
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Undergrad Ohm's law (i.e., I forgot my Algebra)
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Graduate Gaining Broad Math Knowledge: What's Left to Learn?
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Undergrad Isolating x in Equation: 2x\sqrt{3+\sqrt{7}}=\sqrt{(x+1)^2+((\sqrt{7}+2)x-1)^2}
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Plot Intrinsic Equations Free with KmPLot and Maxima
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Graduate What does the graph of a^(x^x) look like and what are its applications?
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High School Solve for a variable in the exponent
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Undergrad Calculating Pyramid Height from 3 Circles
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Is Your Daily Commute Influenced by Luck or Statistical Odds?
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Undergrad Rearranging an equation, It includes a square root.
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Graduate Golden ratio base useful? Easy logarithm in phinary system
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Undergrad Methods and complexity for computing square roots
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Undergrad Which Method of Cancellation is Most Effective in Mathematical Problem Solving?
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Undergrad Make 24 with Math - A Card Game Challenge
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High School Solve Quadratic Equations: Calculate Equation of Curve
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High School Proving even and odd functions
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High School Solving A=cos(-20)-K1-K2cos(-20)+K3 - Get Help Here
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High School For those bored, a little math puzzle
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Undergrad Showing 3 Points Belong to a Straight Line in 3D
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High School Synthetic Division: Divide Polynomials by Monomials
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Free Math, Physics & Science Courses: 200+ OCW Links
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Undergrad Dividing Notation: Cancelling Out Common Factors
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Why Is Mathematician Ranked as America's Best Job?
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High School What's the meaning of this symbol?
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High School An example illustrating the laws of exponents
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Undergrad Scaling node coordinates to a fixed graph size
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Undergrad Finding Exact Trig Values for All Angles
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High School Polynomial long division by Ruffini's synthetic method
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Do you think that Fermat had a genuine proof for his last theorem?
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Undergrad Distance in a Circle: Calculate & Average Distance w/ N
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High School Math & Infinity: Zero vs. Infinity Problem
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Why is math considered beautiful?
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High School How to find the surface area of a sphere?
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Undergrad How Does Parametric Form Differ from Standard Graph Representation?
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Undergrad Expressing a circle in the form r(t) = x(t)i + y(t)i +z(t)k
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Undergrad Inflation-complicated compound interest
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Undergrad Applications of Complex Numbers in Kinematics
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Undergrad Quick questions about equality of functions
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Undergrad Finding a Particle's Location in 3D from 2D Information
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