General Math Forum

Join in expert discussion on general math topics that are not applicable to the specific categories. This includes topics are usually high school math level. Homework help is available.

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  • Monoxdifly
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Undergrad Open problems in continued fractions

  • TeethWhitener
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Graduate Exploring Unconventional Addition: Can Mathematics Embrace New Foundations?

  • biljanica
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High School Is this a new theorem?

  • zuz
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Undergrad Fermat point for quadrilaterals

  • littlemathquark
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Undergrad ABC triangle with integer sides

  • littlemathquark
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High School Confused about ciphers in the book 'Arithmetic for the Practical Man'

  • JOHNTITOR1
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Graduate Possible number of chess games

  • mad mathematician
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High School Nonsense can be truth in logic?

  • mcastillo356
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Undergrad Relevance of an orphaned equation

  • nomadreid
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High School Question about PEMDAS/BODMAS ambiguity

  • DaveC426913
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High School Need an on-line calculator for a simple calculation

  • guyburns
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Undergrad Transforming coordinates between Cartesian and spherical

  • trekie
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Undergrad Solving simultaneous equations

  • chwala
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High School Fractional/decimal powers

  • DaveC426913
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Undergrad My attempt to understand horizontal transformations of functions

  • logicgate
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Graduate Integral Points of an Elliptic Curve over a Cyclotomic Tower

  • lugita15
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Undergrad Proving that fractions are the same as division

  • logicgate
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Graduate Proving Goldbach's conjecture by induction (or why it doesn't seem to work)

  • mad mathematician
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High School A simple trigonometry problem: Put eight coins around a central coin

  • Charles Link
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High School Tips on developing and improving number sense and basic math skills

  • houseof1000questions
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High School I had a question about a way to write Euler's identity

  • jeremyrijsdijk
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Undergrad Is Bing Chat Reliable for Math and Physics Queries?

  • Slimy0233
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Undergrad Evaluation of the sum 1^m+3^m+5^m+ ....................(2n+1)^{m}

  • Rfael69
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High School How to find the objects' areas in this photo in mm^2?

  • Rev. Cheeseman
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High School Older student going back to basics

  • logicandtruth
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Financial Math questions?

  • WMDhamnekar
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High School New solutions to old, historic problems

  • Astronuc
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High School How to cut a plate onto a tube at an angle?

  • Drpia
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Why Do We Celebrate Pi Day on March 14?

  • diogenesNY
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Undergrad Find the "ringing" frequency from sum of multiple overlapping transients

  • Swamp Thing
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Undergrad Calculating the diameter of regular polygons

  • LightningInAJar
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High School A tilted container with water inside - how to calculate the distance A?

  • DoyLin
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High School To calculate the polar unit vectors using rotated coordinates

  • brotherbobby
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High School Strange quadratic manipulation

  • shirozack
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Graduate The Later Life of Alexander Grothendieck

  • jedishrfu
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Graduate Difficult to understand the solution provided in the video (travelling salesman problem)

  • WMDhamnekar
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Undergrad Questions regarding Kurepa's Conjecture

  • Math_Maven
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High School Can Higher Degree Nested Radicals Be Simplified?

  • FranzS
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Undergrad Raising to the power of 0 or 1

  • blueridge
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Undergrad Calculate new height of truncated cone

  • tjosan
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High School Calculate distance between ends of a circle segment

  • solvejskovlund
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High School Cartesian Space vs. Euclidean Space

  • NoahsArk
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High School 4th spatial dimension thought experiment

  • greggnog
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High School Question about the "Hat" tiling problem

  • phyzguy
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High School Why do we need angle values greater than 90 degrees?

  • Frigus
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High School A Pi Question: Why do we use the awkward approximation 22/7 ?

  • Agent Smith
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What the heck is a head start?

  • PeroK
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High School Why does the trigonometry of obtuse angles use ref angles?

  • shirozack
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High School How to calculate a hollow cylinder's volume without the hollow center?

  • Rev. Cheeseman
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Undergrad Is Riemann's Zeta at 2 Related to Pi through Prime Numbers?

  • bland
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High School How circular does it need to be?

  • Agent Smith
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High School Understanding the relationship between ratios and fractions

  • logicgate
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High School Proving the area formula for a rectangle for all positive real numbers

  • logicgate
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Undergrad What is the name of this geometry theorem?

  • barryj
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Undergrad Proof for interpolating polynomial and error approximation

  • bremenfallturm
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High School Is Each Stage of Pascal's Triangle Special?

  • Agent Smith
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Undergrad Modern vs Euclid's definition of equivalent ratios

  • logicgate
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High School A symmetric problem has an asymmetric solution - why?

  • Omega0
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Undergrad Can you solve unknown triangle from shared hypotenuse?

  • FGD
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High School Sharing Ratio -- A shop sells a mix of small chocolate bars and large chocolate bars

  • paulb203
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High School Understanding why πr^2 works for different area calculations

  • paulb203
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Undergrad P-adic numbers and the Ramanujan summation

  • Spathi
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Graduate What motivates famous mathematicians?

  • themasterchief
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High School Innumeracy in public media today

  • phinds
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Undergrad Shrinking a polygon -- calculation logic

  • RobinCris
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High School Why are the axes taken as perpendicular to each other?

  • murshid_islam
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Undergrad The sum of positive integers up to infinity: Was Sirinivasa right?

  • Walid-yahya
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High School Is PI (##\pi##) really a number?

  • dom_quixote
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High School Needing advice for winning/doing well in a Math Counts competition

  • QuantamMaster
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Undergrad Formula Needed for Role Playing Game

  • Biscuit_Jones
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High School Memorizing trigonometric identities

  • adjurovich
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High School Which year did Newton first work with calculus: 1664,1665 or 1666?

  • user079622
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Graduate Help with Recurrence Equation

  • Tygra
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Undergrad Bad at math and great at physics, explain this paradox?

  • user079622
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High School How to interpret Pascal's Triangle for negative numbers?

  • PLAGUE
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High School Scissor Blade Problem

  • Pikkugnome
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High School Multiple Rotating Signs on a Fence Gate -- Overlap Question

  • scatterbrainz
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High School How to convert ft-lbs/sec to Newtons?

  • Rev. Cheeseman
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High School Clever Geometry in this Video

  • Hornbein
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High School Help with new calculator selection (button choices)

  • xrayvision
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Undergrad Converting Longitude coordinates to feet (for separation)

  • John1397
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High School What is the difference between the two sine rules for resultant vector?

  • eben
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High School How to pick some numbers out of 13 integers, by a 4 digits code

  • robertphy
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High School Reprise: Calculate the distance between two points without using a coordinate system

  • Trysse
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Graduate Non-sinusoidal waveform model

  • P3dr0
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High School I've been trying to understand the proof for the binomial theorem

  • Chenkel
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High School A question about rules of multiplication

  • logicgate
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High School Are All Imaginable Integer Series Necessarily Infinite?

  • thetexan
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Undergrad What is the role of geometry and dimensional operations?

  • internationallove089
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Undergrad Is there a way to calculate this transformation?

  • wirefree
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High School More convenient mathematical notation for a simple use case

  • I_Try_Math
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High School How do equivalent ratios work in practical terms?

  • SHASHWAT PRATAP SING
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High School Deceptively simple geometry question on SAT test

  • DaveC426913
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High School What does 2:3 ratio mean? What does it show?

  • SHASHWAT PRATAP SING
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Undergrad When a journalist uses the term "inflection point" to describe growth

  • swampwiz
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Undergrad Trig Manipulations I'm Not Getting

  • thatboi
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Undergrad What are some good arguments against mathematics being discovered?

  • murshid_islam
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Ramanujan: Did he actually exist?

  • Steve Zissou
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Graduate Is it required to use the Reimann function to solve the problem?

  • TartElm
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