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Undergrad Sum of an Alternating Series
High School How do equivalent ratios work in practical terms?
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High School What does 2:3 ratio mean? What does it show?
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Undergrad Is g(x) Equal to g(a) If Their Integrals Are Equivalent?
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Graduate Can Equilibrium State Determine Complex Potential?
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Undergrad A way to comprehend the geometry of a hypercube
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High School Is Averaging Individual Slopes Equivalent to Linear Regression?
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Undergrad Trig Manipulations I'm Not Getting
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High School Finite linear combination of continuous functions is continuous?
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High School Can we use the tangental point to find gradients?
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Undergrad What are some good arguments against mathematics being discovered?
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Graduate How Does U(1) Double-Cover SO(2) for a Specified Angle?
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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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High School What would need to be possible to make a cube of circles?
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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 Can an infinite decimal expansion of a number repeat once?
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High School Circle tangent to two lines and another circle
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High School What theorems are available when using modulo arithmetic?
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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 Degrees of Freedom in Lagrangian Mechanics for a Fractal Path
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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 Can I replace ##X_n = i## with ##A## to type less? Rules of math.
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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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High School Maze Proof and Statistical Mechanics
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High School How Do You Derive the Formula for sin(x-y)?
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High School A Question Relating Sum of Angles and Breaking of the Parallel Postulate
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Undergrad ##1^x =2## has complex solutions?
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Undergrad On a proof of the converse of the supporting hyperplane theorem
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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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Graduate Memory issues in numerical integration of oscillatory function
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Graduate An interesting series - what does it converge to?
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Undergrad The infinite sequence of the digits of pi
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High School Is there a relationship between the harmonic mean and the standard deviation?
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High School Does Infinity Times Two Equal Infinity and Other Mathematical Paradoxes?
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Undergrad Converse of focus-directrix property of conic sections
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Undergrad What does a lower case r mean over variables in an equation?
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Undergrad Criticism of the doctrine of infinity
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Undergrad I need help generating a 2D representation of a curved plane
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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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High School Is everything in math either an axiom or a theorem?
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Undergrad How to establish which side of a square a ray will intersect?
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High School Can Shifting Vectors Affect Their Exponential Distance Sum Equality?
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High School Can We Simplify the Taylor Series Expansion for e^(f(x,y))?
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Undergrad Unit Conversions of Force: How to Convert Between Different Units of Force?
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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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Undergrad Eccentric anomaly of ellipse-circle intersections
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High School General explicit solution to polynomial interpolation
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Insights Series in Mathematics: From Zeno to Quantum Theory
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Undergrad Can the same argument be used for both radians and degrees in the sine function?
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High School I'm trying to find a general formula for a harmonic(ish) series
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Undergrad Integer Square Roots of P{0,1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9}
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Insights What Are Numbers?
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High School Why are the division rules for surds the way they are?
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Undergrad Continuity of Quotient of Complex Values
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Undergrad Complex function, principal value notation
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High School Looking for a specific periodic function
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High School Solving Simultaneous equations with cos() and sin()
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High School Inscribing a circle in an Oblique Square (Drafting)
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Undergrad Optimization problem with multiple outputs: impossible?
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Graduate Finding dual optimum of a linear problem
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Undergrad Using an array to solve a system of equations
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High School Understanding exponentiation and logarithms together
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Undergrad How to Generate Cubes without Cubing: A Proof Method
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Undergrad Modeling Asteroid Rotation Using Quaternions: Seeking Guidance on Init
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High School Can you read my English on 4 colour theorem?
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Undergrad Gradient descent algorithm and optimizers
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Undergrad Breakthrough in 3n+1 Problem: Collatz Conjecture
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Undergrad Dot product, inner product, and projections
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High School Getting from complex domain to real domain
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Undergrad Finding the equation of a curved line
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High School 1 divided by infinity equals zero (always?)
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Undergrad Also in 3D, two reflections make a rotation?
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MHB Solve the Equation involving $4^{\sqrt{log_2 x}}$
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Undergrad Naming convention for "Functional Variance"?
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High School Complete the square, yes, but what does it mean?
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High School Cosecant function: notation for the domain and range -- Am I right?
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High School How to find the infinitesimal coordinate transform along a hyperbola?
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High School Have I proved some part of Fermat's last theorem?
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High School How to find an integer solution to a nonlinear equation?
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Undergrad Make Intelligent Initial Guesses for Newton-Raphson Programmatically
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Undergrad Formula for the propagation of complex errors
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