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Undergrad Sum of an Alternating Series
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MHB Solving a High School Algebra Proof Using Constractive Dilemma
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High School Properties of roots of polynomials
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High School Which Pythagorean triples did the Sumerians know?
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Undergrad Mean of the derivative of a periodic function
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MHB Which Pythagorean triples were known by the Sumerians?
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Graduate Summation formula from statistical mechanics
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High School Roots of Polynomials: Understanding Mathematical Methods
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MHB Which class has the greatest frequency and which has the least frequency
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Undergrad Fourier series coefficients in a not centered interval
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MHB What Is the Probability of Receiving Identical Pairs from Random Crates?
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Graduate What type of function satisfy a type of growth condition?
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Undergrad Is it possible for a non-natural number to be a number base?
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MHB Challenge Problem #7: Σ(x/(y^3+2))≥1
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MHB What to include in an introduction?
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Undergrad Finding the dependence of maximum vertex degree on k-colorability
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High School Justification of addition in Spivak, Ch.1
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High School What Are the Philosophical Implications of the Banach-Tarski Paradox?
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High School Normal form of the conic section equation
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Undergrad What to include in an introduction on number theory?
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Undergrad Changing the argument of a function
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MHB Tracking Monthly Finance Charges for Overdue Invoices: A Spreadsheet Solution?
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MHB Counting Problem: In a school 315 girls play at least one sports
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Undergrad How Does the Sum of Random Signals Flatten as Their Number Increases?
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Undergrad Finding the chromatic number of a graph with biconnected components
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MHB Challenge Problem #9 [Olinguito]
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How Does Energy Convergence Relate to Fourier Series Representation?
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MHB Find Dot Product Between Vector CD & Vector K
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How Can We Ensure Convergence in Function Approximations Beyond Taylor Series?
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Graduate Solving analytic gradient for multilayer perceptron loss function
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MHB Challenge Problem #8: 3Σ(1/(√(a^3+1))≥2Σ(√(a+b))
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High School On the representation of integers?
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Undergrad Arc diameter as a function of arc length and chord length
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High School Thinking about the mean value theorem without geometry
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Graduate Solve for x using trigonometric ratios
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MHB Real-Time Chats: People vs Machines
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MHB Identifying Celestial Pole in Photo Taken 02/21/2010
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Undergrad Question regarding degrees of a graph and its biconnected components
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Undergrad How Many Corners Does a Moving Diameter Intersect on a Grid?
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Undergrad How to relate multiplication of irrational numbers to real world?
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High School If 1/3 amounts to 33.33%, then 3/3 is 99.99% and not an entire whole?
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MHB Can Three Circles Intersect at a Common Point?
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Undergrad Edge connectivity of a graph given the number of edge disjoint paths
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Graduate Book to understand Euler angles (and Tait–Bryan )
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MHB Customer's 10K Piece Profit Margin: 28.8%
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Insights How to Write a Math Proof and Their Structure
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High School How many times faster than light is this?
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MHB Comparing Methods for Initial Value Problem
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Can a Fourier series be adjusted to model a decreasing period function?
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What are Different Types of Vector Normalization?
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Looking for a nonlinear equation with the following property
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Can Optimal Control Be Achieved Using Direct Cost Function Calculation?
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Question about bounded functions
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Can C1 and C2 be converted while maintaining the same boolean function B?
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Fairly Distributing Undividable Goods: A Challenge
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How I would say the following summation
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Correct differentiation identity? (tensors, vectors)
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Identifying cusp catastrophes?
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Rotating Surfaces: Simplifying Sketching with Normalized Equations
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MHB The height of a section of overlapping circles.
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Techniques for Optimizing Partitioning of Positive Real Numbers
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How to quantify the shape of a sequence of data values
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Sequence operator and transform
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Queueing networks please some experts help me
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Algorithm-how to proceed (numerical techniques)
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Uniform rates exercises in practical applications
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MHB Find the exact shaded area of the region in 4 overlapping circles
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Undergrad Quartic real roots - factor part into quadratic
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Undergrad Find Two Equal Length Paths in a Tree Graph
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Undergrad Generating Irrational Ratios in Wave Simulations
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Graduate Can the Fejér Kernel Be Approximated by Polynomials?
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MHB Sun Circumference - A Picture on 04/18/2010
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Undergrad Necessity of absolute value in Cauchy Schwarz inequality
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MHB What is the Range of a/b When ln(a+1)/ln(b+1) = x?
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MHB Probability of AT LEAST 3 6s in 5 Dice Rolls
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Undergrad What is the probability of a cable having a breaking load greater than 6200 N?
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Solving Boat Race Betting Problem: What's the Logic?
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Probability density function afterring
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Different representation of Laplacian
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Does This Graph Structure Form a Matroid?
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Optimizing Regression Degree with Weighted Cost Function
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Maximization of the sum of mutual information terms
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Minimization - optimization alg. or equation alg.?
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Parallelepiped only cutting 4 faces vertically
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Calculating Volume & Weight of Aluminum & Carbon Nanotubes
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Solving the Unknown in PDE: Finding u_B!
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How to Query the Average of the Three Hottest Consecutive Days in a Water Year?
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Kinematics of surface integrals question
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Looking for a coordinate system
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Need advice applying a logistic regression to model school data
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Understanding Error Propagation in Averaging Measurements
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Undergrad Prove that a given graph contains a cycle using induction (Graph Theory)
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High School Do Prime Numbers Follow a Pattern?
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MHB Rewrite in logarithmic form: e^(-1) = c
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MHB How to Solve These Math Equations for x?
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MHB Planes 1 & 2 Intersect: Find Scalar Equations
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MHB Rewrite in exponential form: Log(6) 1294 = 4
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MHB Zero: Natural or Counting Number?
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