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Undergrad Sum of an Alternating Series
Undergrad Raising to the power of 0 or 1
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High School Calculate distance between ends of a circle segment
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High School Cartesian Space vs. Euclidean Space
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High School 4th spatial dimension thought experiment
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High School Question about the "Hat" tiling problem
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High School Why do we need angle values greater than 90 degrees?
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High School A Pi Question: Why do we use the awkward approximation 22/7 ?
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What the heck is a head start?
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High School Why does the trigonometry of obtuse angles use ref angles?
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High School How to calculate a hollow cylinder's volume without the hollow center?
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Undergrad Is Riemann's Zeta at 2 Related to Pi through Prime Numbers?
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High School How circular does it need to be?
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High School Understanding the relationship between ratios and fractions
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High School Proving the area formula for a rectangle for all positive real numbers
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Undergrad What is the name of this geometry theorem?
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Undergrad Proof for interpolating polynomial and error approximation
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High School Is Each Stage of Pascal's Triangle Special?
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Undergrad Modern vs Euclid's definition of equivalent ratios
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High School A symmetric problem has an asymmetric solution - why?
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Undergrad Can you solve unknown triangle from shared hypotenuse?
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High School Sharing Ratio -- A shop sells a mix of small chocolate bars and large chocolate bars
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High School Understanding why πr^2 works for different area calculations
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Undergrad P-adic numbers and the Ramanujan summation
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Graduate What motivates famous mathematicians?
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High School Innumeracy in public media today
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Undergrad Shrinking a polygon -- calculation logic
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High School Why are the axes taken as perpendicular to each other?
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Undergrad The sum of positive integers up to infinity: Was Sirinivasa right?
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High School Is PI (##\pi##) really a number?
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High School Needing advice for winning/doing well in a Math Counts competition
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Undergrad Formula Needed for Role Playing Game
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High School Memorizing trigonometric identities
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High School Which year did Newton first work with calculus: 1664,1665 or 1666?
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Graduate Help with Recurrence Equation
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Undergrad Bad at math and great at physics, explain this paradox?
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High School How to interpret Pascal's Triangle for negative numbers?
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High School Scissor Blade Problem
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High School Multiple Rotating Signs on a Fence Gate -- Overlap Question
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High School How to convert ft-lbs/sec to Newtons?
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High School Clever Geometry in this Video
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High School Help with new calculator selection (button choices)
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Undergrad Converting Longitude coordinates to feet (for separation)
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High School What is the difference between the two sine rules for resultant vector?
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High School How to pick some numbers out of 13 integers, by a 4 digits code
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High School Reprise: Calculate the distance between two points without using a coordinate system
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Graduate Non-sinusoidal waveform model
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High School I've been trying to understand the proof for the binomial theorem
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High School A question about rules of multiplication
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High School Are All Imaginable Integer Series Necessarily Infinite?
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Undergrad What is the role of geometry and dimensional operations?
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Undergrad Is there a way to calculate this transformation?
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High School More convenient mathematical notation for a simple use case
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High School How do equivalent ratios work in practical terms?
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High School Deceptively simple geometry question on SAT test
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High School What does 2:3 ratio mean? What does it show?
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Undergrad When a journalist uses the term "inflection point" to describe growth
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Undergrad Trig Manipulations I'm Not Getting
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Undergrad What are some good arguments against mathematics being discovered?
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Ramanujan: Did he actually exist?
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Graduate Is it required to use the Reimann function to solve the problem?
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High School What is a closed form solution?
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High School Inverse Functions: Why rewrite as y=f(x) ?
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Undergrad What is meant by Newton's Rules, if A+B=C, A=C and B=C?
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Undergrad Highschooler looking for math research/projects
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Undergrad 10^(1/10) is VERY close to 2^(1/3)
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High School Circle tangent to two lines and another circle
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Graduate Are these two optimization problems equivalent?
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Undergrad Higher Dimensional Spheres viz. Cubes
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High School Negative radius convention equivalent but not equal?
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Undergrad Requesting constructive criticism for my paper
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High School Understanding the Relationship Between a Function and Its Inverse
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Undergrad Alternating Harmonic Numbers are cool, spread the word!
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High School Remainder when the dividend is less than the divisor
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High School What went wrong with (-x)^2=x^2?
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Insights The Lambert W Function in Finance
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Graduate Discussion on Astronomical Prime Numbers and Re-evaluating the Primali
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High School Major Math Discoveries in 2023
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High School Finding polynomials with given roots
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Is this a coincidence that this looks like a Gaussian?
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Undergrad The infinite sequence of the digits of pi
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High School Got these image puzzles at university and couldn't solve half of them
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Undergrad What does a lower case r mean over variables in an equation?
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Insights Why Division by Zero is a Bad Idea
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Undergrad What is the missing number in this number sequence pattern?
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Graduate Can You Find an English Translation of Klein's Protocols and Encyclopedia?
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High School Infinitely large times the infinitesimally small
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Undergrad I need to write a function for DPI screen scaling with parameters
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Undergrad How to establish which side of a square a ray will intersect?
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High School More examples of equations that unexpectedly model nature in similar ways
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High School How does one draw a logarithmic scale?
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Undergrad Expressing any given point on plane with one unique number
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High School Validating Darts Tournament Skill Levels: A Non-Intrusive Approach
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Graduate Do Mathematicians Have Modest Goals?
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Undergrad Eccentric anomaly of ellipse-circle intersections
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High School General explicit solution to polynomial interpolation
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Undergrad Introducing integral in textbooks
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Undergrad Can the same argument be used for both radians and degrees in the sine function?
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Undergrad Statistics problem: Comparing written work with & w/out use of AI
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High School Is a Mobius Strip Truly a 2D Object in a 3D Space?
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