General Math Forum

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Help checking work calculations

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High School What do you enjoy/like about mathematics?

  • ISamson
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How far will the car travel in 10 seconds

  • karush
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High School Can Infinity Be Considered Even?

  • Chris Miller
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Algorithm: maximize sum of increasing functions

  • Pereskia
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Solve Odd Math Puzzle: a^2+b^2=k(ab+1)

  • mathpleb
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Undergrad Are |x+|y+z|| and ||x+y|+z| equal algebraically?

  • marksyncm
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Partial Volume of a Cylinder Calculation

  • CivCalc
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Undergrad Proof without words for Heron's formula

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Can the Root Function Solve Inequalities?

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How much money did chad spend on the shirt and shoes ?

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Prove Even Integer is Multiple of 4: Contradiction Approach

  • cbarker1
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Find Last Two Digits of ${2017}^{82}$

  • Deanmark
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Proving Divisibility by 6 Using Mathematical Induction

  • Monoxdifly
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High School What are multiplication and division?

  • Ashish Shukla
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How do you memorize efficiently in fields of interest?

  • Devil Moo
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How to weight criteria when scoring investment options

  • rbv27
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What is the difference between a linear spline and a linear B-spline?

  • mathmari
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Second week precal, x^1/2 + 3x^−1/2 = 54x^−3/2

  • cloakndagger
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High School Has anyone seen this logarithmic spiral creation before?

  • dave202
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Find Remainder When Divided by 19

  • Deanmark
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High School Using reference angles to evaluate trig function

  • sparkie
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High School Do numbers derived from successive differences have a name?

  • ktoz
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Arithmetic problem: What is the capacity of each Breaker"?

  • Penguin1
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High School Can a mathematical construct give multiple outputs for one input?

  • pairofstrings
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High School Does A = p^(p-1), B = A-1, C = 1 give A^p - B^p - C^p divisible by p^p?

  • Terry Coates
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High School What are some commonly used mathematical constants and their purposes?

  • pairofstrings
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High School Instant Runoff Voting and How Safe Movies Win

  • jedishrfu
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Biggest science or math pet peeve

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Have You Ever Won a Random Drawing Prize?

  • kyphysics
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High School Laplacian operator: delta or nabla symbol

  • SemM
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High School Sine/Cosine behaving like a linear function

  • Neck
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Why is the Yorke-Kaplan conjecture still unresolved?

  • Joppy
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How Far Will a 30 kg Cart Move in 3 Seconds with a 10 N Push?

  • karush
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Proper method to calculate damage per second for Role Playing Games

  • dillonte
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2.38 throw a glob of puddy straight up toward the ceiling

  • karush
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High School Difference Quotient vs ARC of a Function

  • opus
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Proving properties of greatest common divisors

  • Joe20
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High School How Can Trigonometry Calculate Distances in Surveying?

  • OldWorldBlues
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High School Term for the square added to an odd integer to make a perfect square

  • Janosh89
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Equilateral triangle within a circumscribed circle

  • Yankel
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Is there an other way to show the proposition ?

  • evinda
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Undergrad Simplifying the double summation of products

  • Josie Jones
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Undergrad Converting exam marks from 20-100 range to 60-100 range

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Undergrad No Way to Solve π(x) from Riemann's Zeta Function?

  • nomadreid
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Is the Calculation for Eb6 Displacement Correct?

  • karush
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Find Integer $n$: Reversed Digits = 999 - Prime < 6000

  • lfdahl
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Undergrad Are Physicists better math puzzle solvers than mathematicans?

  • Pleonasm
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A daredevil is shot out of a cannon

  • karush
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Determine the number of integers for which the congruence is true

  • lfdahl
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Find the smallest A satisfying the inequality

  • lfdahl
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High School What is the fair way to distribute costs and why?

  • davidwinth
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Graduate Movie "Hidden Figures" [Spoilers]

  • russ_watters
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Prove nested radicals identity with alternating signs

  • lfdahl
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High School How do mathematicians choose research topics and verify their work?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Find the maximal value of a^4b+b^4c+c^4a

  • lfdahl
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Eb6 What is the plane’s total displacement

  • karush
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How Does Constant Acceleration Affect Antelope Speed Over 70 Meters?

  • karush
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High School Are These Radian Equations Correct?

  • paulo84
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Find the maximal number of subsets, k.

  • lfdahl
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Leonard Eugene Dickson's story: details?

  • nomadreid
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Graduate Examples of fractal structure in prime partition numbers?

  • Ventrella
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High School Calculating Rod Speeds with Algebraic Formulas

  • demackison
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Solution to the Riemann Hypothesis in plain English

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Eb 4.d determine the magnitude and direction of V

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High School Why is cos^-1 used in the first example but not the second?

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Undergrad Primes and Polynomials

  • JimBob81345
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High School Understanding A Middle Ordinate In Terms Of Geometry

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Undergrad Is this a compound angle? What's the geometric meaning?

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Binary number 0.111...1 (2003 ones) bounded by decimal 0.999...9

  • lfdahl
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Prove a_0+a_1+…+a_2016>3^(2017)−1

  • lfdahl
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UP.2.33 The jumping flea problem

  • karush
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What is an Integral Multiple of 4?

  • cbarker1
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Undergrad What is significance of eulers number

  • rishi kesh
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High School Radian unit -- Why neglected in dimensional analysis?

  • Mr Genius
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AO+BO+CO≥6r where r is the radius of the inscribed circle

  • solakis1
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Undergrad For every finite integer sequence there's a pattern- source?

  • nomadreid
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High School Which mathematical objects are more common in nature?

  • PainterGuy
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Finding equation from logarithmic graph

  • dsm7272
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What is the Proof for the Trigonometric Sum Identity?

  • lfdahl
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High School Why does February have 28 or 29 days?

  • Xilus
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Undergrad What is the Proof of an Inequality for Three Positive Numbers?

  • tomwilliam2
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High School Why can fractal dimensions be non-integer values?

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High School Finding the Equation to Place RGB=255 128 0 on a Long Thin Shape

  • Wes Turner
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UP 2.1 Rocket Average Velocity

  • karush
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High School Self learn calculus for UK A-levels?

  • member 624364
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Given a,b∈T, a^2−ab+b^2 divides a^2b^2, Prove that T is finite

  • lfdahl
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High School Can multivariate non-negative polynomials always be written as a sum of squares?

  • Danijel
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High School Remainder of polynomial division

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Undergrad [Signal and system] Function with fourier series a[k] = 1

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Show, that (7+5√2)^(1/3)+(7−5√2)^(1/3) is an integer

  • lfdahl
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Undergrad What is the name of this field of science please?

  • Jamesgough007
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Not all the roots are real iff a^2_1<a_2

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