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Undergrad Anyone notice that the World Cup ball is a Pyritohedron?
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Undergrad Calculating the root of a number by hand
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MHB Challenge involving irrational number
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Graduate How should I write an account of prime numbers?
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How to Design an Engaging Cover for a Mathematics Paper?
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High School Looking for context for a textbook quote
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Undergrad Is the Ratio of Circumference to Radius of a Circle Always Irrational?
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Insights Intransitive Dice with a Twist - Comments
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High School Need some clarification to get dimensions for a volume
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High School A math puzzle aimed at 9 to 12 year olds
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High School Operator that returns unique number of binary matrix
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High School Udemy Quiz Question on Radians and Quadrants
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High School Finding all possible sums given 2 lists, matched one to one
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Undergrad What Mathematical Concepts Support Profits on MetaTrader?
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Undergrad Question about transfinite numbers
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High School Notation for infinite iteration
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Undergrad Milestones of a human lifetime on a log scale
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Undergrad Can an inverse function of a special cubic function be found?
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High School Can a function have two fundamental periods?
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Undergrad Prove that the geometric mean is always the same
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Undergrad Fit Triples into Sixtuples in the best way?
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High School What geometry theorem is used in this figure?
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High School Golden Ratio in Collatz-like sequences
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High School What Are Basic Questions About Understanding Inequalities?
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Undergrad Is there any way to simplify my proof by induction?
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Undergrad How to Set Up Equations for a Shape with a String Constraint Around a Rectangle?
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Insights Classification of Mathematics by 42 Branches
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Undergrad Find an explicit formula for this n-sum problem
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Undergrad Is the Expanded Collatz Sequence Unique for Each k Value?
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High School Defining an operation such that ##1+2+3=123##
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Undergrad Given a triangle ABC, on which side of the triangle does the point D lie?
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Insights Counting to p-adic Calculus: All Number Systems That We Have
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Undergrad Trouble Solving an Equation that has square roots on both sides
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High School The Greatest Imaginary Mathematician of the 20th Century
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High School Trigonometric Identity involving sin()+cos()
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Graduate Equation system involving InverseDigamma(Digamma(a+1)-b*k)-1
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Graduate Is This a New Expression for the Beta Function?
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Undergrad Union of Prime Numbers & Non-Powers of Integers: Usage & Contexts
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High School Compensating for a bias - a simple geometry/algebra problem:
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Insights Reduction of Order For Recursions
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High School Rabbit and Turtle Race: A Mathematical Analysis of Infinity and Probability
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Undergrad Are There Other Ways To Represent Vectors Besides Arrows?
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Undergrad Is this a proof of the Collatz Conjecture?
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Graduate Video: A Trip to Infinity (Sept 26, 2022 on Netflix)
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High School What is the link between proportion and multiplication?
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Undergrad Adding trig functions with different amplitudes
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High School Can a log have multiple bases?
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MHB What is the meaning of FWHMP and Q in my lab data?
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MHB Solving srirahulan's "trig fix"
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MHB How show that the points S, U and A are collinear?
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MHB Arithmetic progression question
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MHB Advanced Problem-Solving Strategies
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MHB Mathematics & Autism: Research & Insights
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MHB Friction on a half pipe in the middle location
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MHB Odds of being correct if choosing a question at random
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MHB Probability and Operators in Quantum Mechanics
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MHB Question about a rounded rectangle
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MHB Lachlan's question via email about the Bisection Method
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MHB How Can I Create a Commission Curve in Crystal Reports?
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MHB Solving Cubic Equations using Origami
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MHB What's the Logic of this Application using Math
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MHB What are some useful math formula/reference sheets for different courses?
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MHB Looking for a good analytic geometry book
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MHB What are the formulas of partnership in business?
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MHB 2^(57885161) - 1 is now the largest known prime number.
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MHB Physics problem of Man standing in a truckbed
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MHB CraxyCat's Yahoo Answers Question
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MHB Website with a list of Forgotten Books
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MHB Finding Solutions for a Modulus Equation
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MHB Common roots and finding real values
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High School Confusion about the angle between two vectors in a cross product
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High School English Translation of Italian Lecture Notes: Equations & Solutions
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MHB How to find the area of this irregular quadrilateral?
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High School Was bored today and searched for a puzzle. Came across this one....
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Undergrad Uncovering the Mystery of Calorie Constants
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Undergrad What do applied mathematicians deal with?
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Undergrad Conflicting Conventions for Bernoulli Numbers?
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Undergrad Why is (a+b)/2 not recommended in the Bisection method?
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Insights I Know the Math Says so, but Is It Really True?
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Graduate Is Rayo's Number the Largest Finite Number?
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Graduate "1/2 = infinity, great is the glory.... "
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Undergrad Name of distance to nearest multiple of n function?
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MHB Looking for a recursion relation
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MHB Difference of angles in a triangle
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Undergrad Polynomials can be used to generate a finite string of primes....
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MHB Is There an Exact Solution to the Equation \(4^x + 3^x = 12\)?
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MHB Using line equations to calculate a difference in rates of development
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Graduate Adjusting Parameters for Identifying Features of an Action Potential
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MHB Solve $x^4+(4-x)^4=32$ Equation
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MHB Prove Angle of Diagonals in Quadrilateral is Degrees
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High School Popularizing a property for n-bonacci numbers without publishing it?
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High School Are Inverse Problems More Complex Than Direct Problems in Mathematics?
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Undergrad Defining the Prime Gap function
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MHB Solve Equation: $x^4+2x^3-x^2-6x-3=0$
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Graduate P vs NP & Godel | A Comprehensive Guide
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MHB Equation 2: Prove that ##x^2+2x\sqrt x+3x+2\sqrt x+1=0##
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MHB Find the angle in the triangle
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Graduate Higher approximations of Ramanujan formula for ##\pi##
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