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Undergrad Sum of an Alternating Series
Who Discovered the Trig Sum Formulas?
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Partial Fraction Decomposition
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Find Phase Shift & # Squares to Move Trig Graphs
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Can You Pronounce 'Lebesgue' Correctly?
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Can Any 4th Degree Polynomial Be Expressed as a Quadratic of a Quadratic?
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How Were the Sine and Cosine Formulas Originally Derived?
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Distribute 24 points in a circle
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Maximizing Profits: How Many Shares to Buy for the Best Return in 6 Months?
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Is the statement 0! = 1 actually wrong or just ill-defined?
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Number of Positive Divisors of an Integer: Proof
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Mathematica - Colour each 2D point by a third coordinate for each point?
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How does a TI-84 calculate the derivative at a point?
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Several unknowns but only one equation
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How To Find The Formula of This Permutations?
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Is Flex Klien's Prime Squares Birthday a Sign for Math Genius?
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Coordinates of a random point of a circle?
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Funny Math Proof - What Is It?
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What Are These Three 2D Shapes Called?
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Help Me Factorise: 3(n+r)(n+r-1) + (n+r) to (n+r)(3n+3r-2)
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Advance calculus and more, courtesy Harvard
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What is the difference between auto-correlation and cross-correlation?
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Distance between two points on some surface
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Sum of a polygon's interior angles
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Are 3 2 1 Consecutive Integers?
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Does Principia Mathematica Live Up to Its Name?
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How do I rearrange an equation involving multiple variables and fractions?
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Analytical solutions of cubic equations
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Least Square Fit of Multiple Measurements with Shared Parameters
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The Euler formula how was it developed?
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Dividing S^3 into two separate pieces.
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Index notation is driving me CRAZY
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Distance Traveled by a Car Before Stopping
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How do you know which field in maths is for you or not?
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Discover the Difference Between 10% and 30% of 20000
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[Data regression] Levenberg-Marquardt BUT force to intersect 2 KNWON points
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Calculate Cost for Most Economical Speed & Max Speed for Ship Voyage
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Hard time with trigonomic functions.
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Definition of uniform convergence written as math symbols
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An integer between n and n+1 where n is an integer.
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Equation of a circle through 3 points in 3D space
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Protecting Your Scientific Work: How to Safeguard Your Ideas and Discoveries
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Installing/loading mathematica packages
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Deriving Equation for $\gamma_0$
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How many ways can we rearrange the letters in DISCRETE
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Functional Equation for $\sum_{n=0}^{N}n^{k}$
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What's the Difference between Algebra 1,2,and 3
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Mathematica free tensor package?
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Infinite number of terms in the expansion (1+x)^n?
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Linkage analysis using intersection of three sphere
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Heaviside function and Unit impulse (delta) help
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Solve Surds Using Laplace Transform
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Solving a Thought Problem: Growing a Field of Crops from Scratch
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What Are the Best Mathematics Institutions to Visit in Canada?
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Radian measures with Trig Functions?
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Metamathematical Analysis of Physics Formulae
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Factorizing taylor polynomials of infinite degree
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Proving the Occurrence of Coinciding Clock Hands at Noon and Midnight
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Are non-integer moduli useful in modular arithmetic?
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How to show that Acosx+Bsinx=Ccos(x+a) ?
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Understanding Spherical Trigonometry: What is it and How is it Used?
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Annoyingly simple problem - rational functions and limits at infinity
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Dirac delta function with complex arguments
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The period of trigonometric functions
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What are the x and y intercepts y= x+2/x-7 rational
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Building a dog house on the side of a shed.
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Math Exercises for Physics Students | Maiki
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Function Notation: Understanding h(t) & t(h)
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True, false questions about matrices
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Logarithmic Scale: Calculating Evenly Spaced X Values
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Testing if real-valued expressions are negative
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Intuition behind this algebraic question
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Proof for Alternating Group Order |An| = ½(n!)
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Help Logical calculation of pair comparisons from analysis of existing results
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Solving Derivation Problem: \sum_{j=\kappa}^{\inf} \varphi^{2j-\kappa}\sigma^2
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Understanding the Dot Product of Derivatives in Astrodynamics
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Foundations of measure theory?
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Alternating Groups: Even Permutations in Sn for n > 2
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Limit of compression (source coding theorem)
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How is the average value for a sinewave derived?
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Rockeet going from A to B with least fuel
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Figuring out first day of a month
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I Figured It Out to Solving Challenges
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The LinearAlgebra`MatrixManipulation` package
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Question about how to derive Sine
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What is the Flaw in the 'Proof' That -1 Equals 1?
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Lim(x*sqrt(1-cos(2*Pi/x)),x->Infinty) using analytical methods
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What is the point of synthetic division?
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Finding integer solutions logically
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Dot product calculates what exactly?
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Can someone explain modulo with fractions?
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Is the sum 1+2+3+4+... really equal to -1/12?
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What math level teaches turning data points into equations?
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Need help with AMATYC math problem
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Solving non-elementary functions
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First Step in Finding an Integration Reduction Formula for (4-x^2)^n
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Is Taking the Reciprocal a Valid Approach in Differentiating dpH/dV?
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Random: Any way to calculate Transcendental numbers using abacus?
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Can a formula be used to modify data patterns from linear to wave-like?
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Is this possible? [Pythagorean theorem in 3D]
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Diff Eq vs Calc 3: Which is Harder?
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