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Undergrad How Many Refills Until Your Creamy Coffee Turns Black?
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Graduate Does Cantor's Comb Have Other Applications in Math?
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Undergrad How to solve for the inverse of a function?
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High School Did Fermat proof the Fermat's Last Theorem?
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Undergrad Uncovering the Rule of 'Cyclic' Primes
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Undergrad Is ABC Greater Than or Equal to A+B+C?
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Undergrad What is the next number in this sequence
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High School What is the purpose of a perfect square trinomial?
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Graduate How Does the Jones Polynomial Relate to Different Knot Configurations?
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Undergrad Has the Erdos-Strauss Conjecture Been Proven?
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Graduate The sum of Eve and Ann's ages is 44
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Longest word such that each 3 letter subset (in order)is also a word
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High School How Can I Understand and Use Double-Angle Formulas in Trigonometry?
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High School Find the next number in the series
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High School Brain Teaser 5: Solve 0! + 0! + 0! + 0! = 24
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High School Find a three-digit number containing three different digits
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High School How Will the Son Break Off Links for 123 Weeks Without Skipping a Week?
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High School How Can You Use Only Four Zeros to Get the Number 24 in Math?
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Is Something Truly Random? - Discussion
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High School How can four zeros and mathematical operations/symbols equal 24?
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High School How Can You Use Only Four Zeros to Obtain the Number 24?
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Undergrad Minimum number of links he would need to cut?
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High School Who Actually Discovered the Formula for the Area of a Triangle?
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Undergrad Number Theory Textbooks to Finding the Best!
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High School Who discovered the formula for finding the area of a triangle?
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High School How can you sell apples equally among three sons with the same procedure?
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Graduate Riemann Hypothesis: What Is It? Online Resources
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Undergrad Proving Bisection of Angles with Euclidean Geometry
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Finding a Good Equation Editor: My Search for an Alternative
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High School Can You Calculate Inverse Sine Without Using Sin-1?
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Undergrad Calculating Chess Knight Moves on a n x n Board
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Graduate Back Induction: Proofs Beyond AM>=GM
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High School What is the significance of x=ii in imaginary numbers?
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What is the Stanford Bookstore Joke?
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Undergrad Noise Calculation in Video Signals: Understanding Sqroot(2)
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Undergrad X / 0 = holding any major development up?
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High School Longest Math Equation: What Is It?
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High School Difference between any two odd numbers is even
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Undergrad Shortest distance from point to Catmull-Rom spline
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Want a New Smilie for Your Physics Forum?
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Undergrad Would You Switch?: A Look at the Curtain Game
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Undergrad What Are Your Odds of Winning the Lottery with a 6-Digit Combination?
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Graduate Solve the Challenge: Prime Pair Sum Always Divisible by 12
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High School What is the significance of zero?
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Undergrad How to Calculate Pipe Oscillation Frequency with Conical Nozzle?
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Graduate Proof the Godel's Incompleteness Theorem
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High School How to convert an exponent to binary number?
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Undergrad Is a 4-D Coordinate Plane Possible?
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Undergrad Hyperbolas equivalent of an ellipsis's minor axis?
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High School Pythagoras Theorem: 32 + 42 = 52?
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Undergrad Creating 500Ω Resistance with 12 600Ω Resistors
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High School Simple proportion one that is a one to one function
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High School Simplest way of figuring out square roots?
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Creative License Plate Ideas: Keep it Free, Sciency or Mathy!
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High School What the mathematical XOR function is
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Graduate Hurdles of laymann misunderstanding of mathematics.
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Graduate The Hurdles to the Causal Mathematics Hypothesis
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What Makes Music, Math, and Art a Must-Read for IMO Gold Medalists?
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Undergrad Resonance, acoustical resonant frequency of objects
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Graduate Is a Star Graph with Infinite Rays Considered an Infinite Tree?
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High School Master Algebra: Tips for Expanding (2X+Y)^5
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High School Unlock Your Right-Brained Math Struggles with Creative Solutions - My Story
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High School Subtype IQ Test (revised): logical and mathmatical reasoning
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High School What are Sin hx, Cos hx, Tan hx in Mathematics?
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Undergrad Careless mistakes you've made in tests/exam
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Undergrad What is Linear and Abstract Analysis and How Are They Applied in Science?
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Undergrad Solve Volume and Surface Area for Rectangular Open-Top Box: Apps of Cubics
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Graduate Godel's Theorem: Discuss and Explain
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Undergrad What are Additional Math Notations Used by ObsessiveMathsFreak?
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Graduate What is the Solution to Euler's Constant Riddle?
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High School Why Does This Number Pattern Have a Strange Repeating Sequence?
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Undergrad I had a question about math applied physics
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High School How do I solve for X, D, and L in this basic equation?
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Undergrad What Are Good Theorem Names for Letters K, U, W, X, Y in a Calculus ABC Book?
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Zero most powerful quantity in the unvierse
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High School Why Does Anything to the Power of 0 Equal 1?
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Undergrad Applicaitions of cubics + quadratics look at this :p
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High School Accuracy of Fractions vs Decimals: Why Decimals?
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Graduate Smallest n-Natural Number for Inequality ∑k=2n {1/[k * ln(k)]} ≥ 20
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Graduate What Question Ensures the Right Path and How Far Are Witt and Pitt?
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Undergrad Planar Graphs: Definition & Properties
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Graduate What are the applications of Nonstandard Analysis in mathematical physics?
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Graduate Fractals of rational dimension and fractals of integral powers
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Undergrad Generating splines from points (with normals)
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Undergrad Prove Triangle Angles <= 30 Degrees | Let ABC & P Be a Triangle
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High School How Many Samsung Phones Fit in the Leg Room of a BMW Z4?
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Graduate The random function's universality of multiplicative identity
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Undergrad Hilbert's 20 axioms of the Euclidean geometry
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High School What is the solution to this tricky triangle problem?
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Graduate Is Bernoulli's Principle of Water Flow Really Flawless in Hydraulic Engineering?
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High School How to Solve Exponential Equations without Logarithms
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Undergrad Is there an optimal strategy for winning this simple game?
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Undergrad Number Theory Websites and Resources for Self-Study
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Graduate Easy Proof of Irrationality of Pi
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