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High School How to find the objects' areas in this photo in mm^2?
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High School New solutions to old, historic problems
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High School Probability that 2 distinct integers are divisible by the same number
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High School How to cut a plate onto a tube at an angle?
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Undergrad Help with area formula using direction cosines
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Undergrad Zero raised to a positive real number
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Undergrad Question about ARMA process: Changing a Stochastic Process into a Transfer Function
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Undergrad On base-b expansion of nonnegative reals
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Undergrad Find the "ringing" frequency from sum of multiple overlapping transients
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Undergrad Method for finding a complex series?
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Undergrad Calculating the diameter of regular polygons
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High School A tilted container with water inside - how to calculate the distance A?
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High School To calculate the polar unit vectors using rotated coordinates
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High School Strange quadratic manipulation
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Undergrad What is a distinct feature of an ambiguous result?
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Difficult to understand the solution provided in the video (travelling salesman problem)
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Undergrad Questions regarding Kurepa's Conjecture
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High School Can Higher Degree Nested Radicals Be Simplified?
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Undergrad Raising to the power of 0 or 1
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Undergrad Calculate new height of truncated cone
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Graduate Scalars, Vectors, Matrices,Tensors, Holors....
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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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Graduate How to use the Newton-Raphson method while keeping the sum constant?
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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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High School The Paradox of 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + 1 – 1 + …
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High School Can Riemann integrable be defined using the epsilon delta non method?
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High School Why does the trigonometry of obtuse angles use ref angles?
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Undergrad Can the Fourier transform be applied to moving averages with Python?
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High School Uncomputable Numbers and Rational Approximations
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High School Sequence formula needed - Keyword --> annuity
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High School Set Theory Question -- Which one is correct?
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High School How to calculate a hollow cylinder's volume without the hollow center?
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Insights Views On Complex Numbers
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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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Insights Aspects Behind the Concept of Dimension in Various Fields
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Undergrad Relevant Literature for Noisy Linear Dynamical Systems
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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 Monumental Proof Settles Geometric Langlands Conjecture
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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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Undergrad Opinion about an introduction of the Lebesgue integral in "Introduction to Hilbert spaces with applications"
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Undergrad How (un)reasonable is graphic linear regression in a monolog graphic?
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Graduate Dirac Delta: Normal -> Lognormal?
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High School A question about cardinalities
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Undergrad Question about partial derivative relations for complex numbers
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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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High School Are Implication and Equivalence Interchangeable in Logic?
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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 Memorizing trigonometric identities
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High School Graphing trip efficiency - distance over time
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Help with Recurrence Equation
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Undergrad Numerically how to approximate exponential decay in a discrete signal
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Undergrad Flat surface to curved surface
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Undergrad Formal definition of multiplication for real and complex numbers
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High School Identity Theorem for power series
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High School Probability - two possible points of view?
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High School How to interpret Pascal's Triangle for negative numbers?
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Undergrad Tennis Probabilities Challenge
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High School Scissor Blade Problem
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Undergrad What does dv/dt mean, how is it used, and when?
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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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Undergrad Spherical trig - sphere radius from 6 lengths
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High School Clever Geometry in this Video
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Undergrad Correlation vs causality implied by a graph
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Help with new calculator selection (button choices)
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Undergrad Converting Longitude coordinates to feet (for separation)
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What is the difference between the two sine rules for resultant vector?
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Undergrad Post your favorite real analysis problem
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High School Part to Whole comparison
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High School How to pick some numbers out of 13 integers, by a 4 digits code
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Undergrad Calculating the inverse of a function involving the error function
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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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Undergrad Practice With Proofs? (Algebra, Trig, and Calc)
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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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Graduate How Can We Analyze an Exam with Varying Multiple Choice Options?
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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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