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Undergrad Sum of an Alternating Series
High School Squaring finite decimals of 2/3 and 1/3 - growing patterns
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Undergrad Can you transform a countably infinite set to an uncountable one?
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Undergrad Need help understanding base-10 number format please
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High School Is one out of infinity different from zero?
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High School Would like some more knowledge about the product of functions
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Undergrad 1-dim Penrose tiling = "musical sequence"? Why?
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Undergrad Adding 'z' to 2D graph equation
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High School When is a polygon not a polygon?
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High School Cool fact about number of digits in n!
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MHB Solving Quadratic Equations without CD: Better Direction?
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High School How Can I Calculate Negative Multiplication Without Following Traditional Rules?
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Undergrad Traffic simulation : directed graph including specific rules
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Undergrad Is e^pi a unique transcendental, or perhaps not transcendental?
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Undergrad How to prove that a scalar potential exists if the curl of the vector point function is zero?
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Undergrad Compilations of proofs of Euclid's Theorem on primes
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High School Pattern inductive reasoning problem
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Undergrad Find Smallest Subtree of G w/ Nodes from S
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Graduate The abc conjecture and Virasoro algebra
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Undergrad Preventing specific cases of digital signature forgery and repudiation
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What Is a Limit of a Function? A 5 Minute Introduction
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Graduate Another great mathematical problem: Quadrisection of a disc
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Graduate Why the triangle inequality is greater than the 2 max{f(x),g(x)}
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Undergrad What is the name of the software company behind the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas?
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Graduate What are your insights on The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever?
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High School A triangle problem: Prove that |AC|+|AB|=|PR|+|PQ| given some constraints
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Undergrad Finding the inverse tangent of a complex number
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Graduate Even with a whimsical mathematical usage, solutions are obtained!
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Undergrad Resource help for co-ordinate geometry
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Undergrad Variant of Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff Formula
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Undergrad How can you represent a point by "z = x + iy" as shown here?
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High School Proof that pattern recognition is unending?
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High School Dividing by infinity, exactly, finally!
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Undergrad Infinite Series of Infinite Series
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Undergrad Calculating Material Dimensions for a Semi-Circular Window Rainbow
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Undergrad What are the Zeta Function and the Riemann Hypothesis?
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Does 'rest' have a precise mathematical definition?
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High School Attempt to solve this system of three linear equations
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High School Are there two kinds of inverse with respect to closure?
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Undergrad What Are Examples of Alternate Orderings in Mathematics?
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High School Simple Combo/Permute calculation
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High School What is the building block of maths?
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High School Relation between Division and multiplication
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Undergrad What Are the Benefits of Triangle Inequality in Mathematics?
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Undergrad The answer is 15! What is the problem?
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Graduate Editing in Freq domain and applying inverse FFT
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High School Problem with simple inequality
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High School Defining handedness, right-left, or clockwise-counterclockwise
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High School Calculating 'Typical' Grade of a Hiking Trail
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High School Is this a complex number at the second quadrant?
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Undergrad How to start with proving ##a^a + b^b > a^b + b^a##?
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High School How to draw a plane intersecting a cylinder at a "compound angle"
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Undergrad Solving simultaneous vector equations
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Graduate Margules' Power Series Formula: Deriving Coefficients
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Undergrad Formula for credit card balance as a function of payments
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Graduate Finding Minimal Mean Distance Curves on the Unit Sphere
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Undergrad Number System by Inuit School Kids now in Unicode
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High School Wolfram Alpha's Why the 2 i π n?
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Undergrad A doubt about the multiplicity of polynomials in two variables
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Undergrad Why Is the Integral Result 175/3 Instead of 45?
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Why is 1 not equal to 0 in this proof?
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High School Arithmetic mean of an infinite number of points?
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High School Luis A. Caffarelli, 2023 Abel Prize
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High School Invariant under rotation: Banal, obvious, or noteworthy?
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High School Interesting Use Of Pigeonhole Principle
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High School How is the harmonic mean affected by additional data points?
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Undergrad What does f(t) Subscripted to g(t) Epsilon Mean?
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High School Solve for ##c## for this rotated square
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Undergrad Quality of rational approximations
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High School The Mandelbrot Set has a third dimension: the Bifurcation Diagram
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High School Creating Log Tables: Briggs' 400-Year-Old Accomplishment
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Undergrad Prove that a triangle with lattice points cannot be equilateral
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Undergrad Solve Brainteaser: What's the Difference in Age Between Steve and Steveston?
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Vector Calculus in 1D: ± to Show Magnitude?
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Undergrad A question about Young's inequality and complex numbers
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High School What is 2.2204460492503E-16 as odds?
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High School Constructing a Line Segment Equal to a Circle's Circumference?
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Undergrad Best fit to an oscillating function
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Undergrad Can chatgpt accurately calculate expected lengths in Pascal's triangle?
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High School Calculating the perfect tennis shot using vectors
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MHB Probabilities of certain events in a lucky wheel game
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Graduate Determining rationality of real numbers represented by prime digit sequence
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Graduate Converting this vector into polar form
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Undergrad Determine ## \beta ## as a function of ##\theta## linkage
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Graduate Solve a nonlinear matrix equation
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Unimaginable Numbers: What is 1.36 x 10^495 times 20 Million?
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Undergrad Solving an equation with a parameter and a derivative
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Undergrad Is this the correct way to quantify these integers?
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Graduate Question about the Poincaré conjecture
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Undergrad Properties of the Fourier transform
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Undergrad Solving Stat Mech Integral with Wolfram Alpha
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High School Fourier Analysis on musical chords in different instruments
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Graduate Finding Global Minima in Likelihood Functions
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High School Question about this Lesson on Square Roots
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Undergrad Adjacent transpositions: question about definition
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Undergrad Calculating the root of a number by hand
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Undergrad Equivalence Question between when-then statement and if then statement
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MHB Challenge involving irrational number
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Undergrad Geodesic path in 2 dimensions?
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Graduate How should I write an account of prime numbers?
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