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Undergrad Sum of an Alternating Series
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MHB Identifying Celestial Pole in Photo Taken 02/21/2010
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Undergrad Question regarding degrees of a graph and its biconnected components
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Undergrad How Many Corners Does a Moving Diameter Intersect on a Grid?
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Undergrad How to relate multiplication of irrational numbers to real world?
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High School If 1/3 amounts to 33.33%, then 3/3 is 99.99% and not an entire whole?
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Undergrad Edge connectivity of a graph given the number of edge disjoint paths
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MHB Customer's 10K Piece Profit Margin: 28.8%
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High School How many times faster than light is this?
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Graduate Can a Fourier series be adjusted to model a decreasing period function?
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Graduate Can C1 and C2 be converted while maintaining the same boolean function B?
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Graduate How I would say the following summation
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MHB The height of a section of overlapping circles.
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Graduate Techniques for Optimizing Partitioning of Positive Real Numbers
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Graduate Queueing networks please some experts help me
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Undergrad Uniform rates exercises in practical applications
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MHB Find the exact shaded area of the region in 4 overlapping circles
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Undergrad Quartic real roots - factor part into quadratic
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Undergrad Find Two Equal Length Paths in a Tree Graph
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MHB Sun Circumference - A Picture on 04/18/2010
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Graduate Does This Graph Structure Form a Matroid?
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Graduate Maximization of the sum of mutual information terms
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Graduate Minimization - optimization alg. or equation alg.?
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Undergrad Parallelepiped only cutting 4 faces vertically
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Undergrad Prove that a given graph contains a cycle using induction (Graph Theory)
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High School Do Prime Numbers Follow a Pattern?
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MHB Rewrite in logarithmic form: e^(-1) = c
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MHB How to Solve These Math Equations for x?
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MHB Planes 1 & 2 Intersect: Find Scalar Equations
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MHB Rewrite in exponential form: Log(6) 1294 = 4
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MHB Zero: Natural or Counting Number?
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MHB Is 2√(7)+4 an Irrational Number?
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MHB Calculating amount left at the end of a repetetive cutting down cycle.
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High School Equation vs Identity: Why We Differ Both Sides
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Graduate A zero knowledge system for voting?
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Undergrad Polynomials: Theory and Problems to Solve
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Graduate Why Do Common Functions Use Asymptotic Expansion Series?
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High School Finite & Infinite: Univerally Accepted Definitions?
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High School How to Properly Use Substitution
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High School Synonyms "cardinality" with "carnality"?
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Undergrad Proof of Addition Reversibility
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High School Mathematicians Revive Abandoned Approach to the Riemann Hypothesis
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MHB Simplify expression with laws of indices
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MHB Angular Velocity - 2100 Revs in 3 Mins - 73.3 Rad/s
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Graduate What is the optimal solution for the Traveling Doctor Problem?
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Graduate Question about mathematic courses I need
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Graduate Relating Robotics To Mathematics Of Coding
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Graduate Find Parameter Set for N Intersections of 2 Implicit Functions
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Graduate Understanding the Cases for 315p and Proving Abundance
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Graduate Solving the Multiset Filling Problem
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Undergrad Should Pre-Calculus Classes Introduce Hyperbolic Functions?
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MHB Trigonometric Question sin^2(180-x) cosec(270+x) + cos^2(360-x) sec(180-x)
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High School Parabola and Hyperbola Question
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Graduate Solving trigonometric equation
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Undergrad A set of algebraic operations producing unique results based on order?
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Undergrad Managing Workload and Vacation for Analysts: A Complex Production Scenario
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Graduate Is there any theory that can be modeled in any type of space?
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High School Is 3x=15 Really That Hard to Solve?
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Undergrad Intersection of ellipses and equivalent problems
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MHB Investment Decisions: Help w/ Questions 3-6 Needed
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Undergrad Quadratic equation of two variables
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Puzzles and exercises to improve mathematical and spatial intelligence
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Undergrad FiveThirtyEight Assess their Accuracy
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MHB Prove identity (sinx+cosx)/(secx+cscx)= sinxcosx
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Undergrad Number of Solutions of a Nonlinear System
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Graduate Prove Inequality: 3(ab+bc+ac)/abc + 6abc + 15 ≥ 27
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Undergrad Amazon <=> Google Scholar Mashup? (Or something similar)
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Graduate Category theory and Computer Science
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Undergrad Navigating Crowds: Sidewalks & Corridors
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Graduate Compensating Robot Arm Deflection for End Weight
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Graduate Need help understanding spherical harmonics
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High School Suggestions, if you would, for a Trig. book.
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Undergrad Triangulating Sound Sources Using Time Differences: A Numerical Approach
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Graduate Maximizing Sum of Weights w/ N Entities & M Constraints
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Graduate Collineations of an affine geometry
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Undergrad Book of Mathematical Tricks/Manipulations
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High School A book thread for general principals
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Undergrad Box sliding down multiple ramps
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Graduate What Books Should a Graduate Math Student Read Over Summer?
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Undergrad Can a Mathematical Formula Predict Missile Collision in Computer Games?
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High School Trouble with polynomial long division
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MHB Velocity Time graphs: Find acceleration in the first 15 mins in km/h^2
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High School Proving congruent with Euclidean axioms
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High School The eight-queens chess puzzle and variations of it
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High School A problem involving the addition of two cubes
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Undergrad Infinity: Is it Completed or Contradictory?
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MHB Km8,38 Find the value of \theta if it exists
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MHB Solve Algebra Word Problem: Overpayment Amount of \$85.00
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High School Spatial Average of squared functions
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High School What Mathematical Concepts Are Needed to Understand a Jumping Ball in Space?
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MHB Write an inequality that describes the region where the grass has been planted
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High School Can 2x/3x Equal 2/3x Squared on a Graphing Calculator?
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High School Finding the range of an equation with domain restrictions?
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Undergrad How Does Scaling Affect the Coordinates of a Rectangle in the Plane?
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Undergrad Proof for Axes of an Ellipse - Analytical Geometry
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Undergrad Classification of figure from the general equation of conics
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