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Undergrad How GIMPS found the largest known prime number in 2016
- DrClaude
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What is the significance of the recent discovery of the largest prime number?
- kaliprasad
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Undergrad A check: shortest distance from point to line
- julian
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What are the dimensions of the shapes in this tangram problem?
- narledge
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Solving for frequency and angle in sinc function equation
- NiToNi
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Prove the sum of a² and d² is equal the sum of b² and c².
- anemone
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Undergrad What main branches of mathematics are there?
- Mathmanman
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Using Substitution to Solve Cubic Equations
- Harry2
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Undergrad Silly theoretical area question
- tim9000
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Proving $a^2-3a-19$ is Not Divisible by 289
- kaliprasad
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How Do You Calculate the Entry Velocity of a Ball into a Basketball Hoop?
- Mango12
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Finding friction force on a ball passing through a net
- Mango12
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Finding parallelogram dimensions inside a 15×20.5in rectangle
- Storminnorman
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Undergrad Pulling a negative out of a square root
- Mr Davis 97
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How to solve this math problem
- karush
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Angular momentum and a basketball
- Mango12
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High School Solving 'Hundepuzzle' with High School Maths Only
- pioneerboy
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Solve Exponent Questions: (2^2015)*(5^2019)
- Mord3Kay
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Undergrad Does bin packing with item count limits have a standard name?
- Mentallic
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*Simultaneous equation 4 variables
- karush
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High School Representation of (x-7) and (x+1)
- #neutrino
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High School What is the discriminant b² - 4ac in the quadratic formula?
- askor
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Undergrad Solve for a constant in an equation
- Dean Whaley
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Undergrad How to Prove an Inverse Function Using Equating Square Roots?
- #neutrino
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Prove the sum is less than 2016
- anemone
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Calculate the sides of a triangle knowing its area, perimeter and angle A.
- loquetedigo
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Undergrad Greatest common factor with exponents of first input
- DirichletHole
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Undergrad Brainstorm and confusion of concepts
- Bruno Tolentino
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Undergrad What is the connection between Ramanujan and the value of infinity?
- Evenus1
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Who disliked/was bad at Math in High School?
- Berigs
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Graduate How Can the Sum of All Natural Numbers Equal -1/12?
- rollingstein
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Can $\sqrt{8}^{\sqrt{7}}$ Ever Be Greater Than $\sqrt{7}^{\sqrt{8}}$?
- anemone
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High School How can i solve joint proportion?
- the legion
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Undergrad Resolve for C: A[(B+C)^D-C^D]=E
- MrXY
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Proof problem outside triangle geometry
- prior
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Insights The Millennium Prize Problems: Part I - Comments
- kreil
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Undergrad Lifting a square tile by one of its corners
- Ocata
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Finding arccos(cos 4π/3) with range restriction
- Guest2
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High School Summation Formula for Adding by 3's: n(2n+1)/3
- NameIsUnique
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Graduate What Connects Different Types of Geometry in Mathematics?
- tgt
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High School How do you eliminate one term of several in a denominator?
- 5P@N
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Undergrad Can b always be greater than 0?
- Alpharup
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Why does this proportion work?
- mathgeek7365
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Undergrad Is N Divisible by 2, 3, 5, or 7?
- Cosmos
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Find positive integer solutions
- anemone
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High School Finding Y when X is unknown in y=x-c equations
- ThanaH
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Undergrad Is a^2+c Always a Prime Number Under Certain Conditions?
- shivakumar06
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Graduate Fascinating number theory relationship
- willr12
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High School The how to represent an inequality in a graph question
- #neutrino
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Is Floor Function Equality Proven for All Non-Negative x?
- anemone
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Insights Partial Fractions Decomposition - Comments
- Mark44
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High School What does this notation "<>" mean?
- 5P@N
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Undergrad The Value of 100! to 110! Factorial Problem
- Cosmos
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Graduate Testing primes using factorials
- binbots
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Fractions/brackets/parentheses and powers.
- Jackie In Italy
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Finding Symmetries of a Function
- megacat8921
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How to fit a quadratic function to two points?
- samir
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Is $10^a\lt 127$ True for the Real Root of $x^3-3x-3=0$?
- anemone
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High School Why does the 2*xi(n-1)*delta term cancel in this equation?
- SansaStark
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Why Does an Inequality Sign Flip?
- emacat
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Undergrad Finding a and b where ab/(a+b) = 2016
- Cosmos
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Geom. Challenge: Prove $(1-\cos A)(1-\cos B)(1-\cos C)\ge \cos A\cos B \cos C$
- anemone
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High School Multiplying and dividing real and complex numbers
- Einstein's Cat
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How can trigonometric functions be simplified using specific values?
- Guest2
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Graduate Theorems that can't be proved by induction
- Fredrik
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Undergrad How to compare powers with different bases mentally
- vin300
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Graduate What is a Russian style in mathematics?
- Demystifier
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How Many Digits in the Number $2^{100}$?
- kaliprasad
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Undergrad Why is e^x its own derivative if e came from compound interest?
- Warp
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Can You Find the 8-Digit Number That is a Multiple of 2013 in Greg's Solution?
- Albert1
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Find Min Value of a+b+c=1: $\sqrt {a^2+b^2}+\sqrt {b^2+c^2}+\sqrt {c^2+a^2}$
- Albert1
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Undergrad Why does x^x^x^x^...=n only work for 1/e ≤ n ≤ e?
- MAGNIBORO
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High School Why is the number zero crucial in math and science?
- {~}
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Are the Roots of cx^2 + 2ax +b = 0 Real?
- Lytk
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High School Why are dimensions always at right angles?
- Sangam Swadik
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The Search for an 'A' Whose Powers All Start with 9
- Albert1
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World's hardest easy geometry problem
- livinonaprayer
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High School Who and when - simple piece of geometry
- julian
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Undergrad Hexagon's rotating in a larger hexagon
- thorpie
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Undergrad Virtual images as an analogy for imaginary numbers
- DaveC426913
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Cube Root Challenge: Prove Inequality
- anemone
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Graduate Looking for a multivariate function with certain properties
- Asteropaeus
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Inequality Challenge: Prove Real $a,b,c,x,y,z$
- anemone
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Can you prove the Floor Function Challenge?
- anemone
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Graduate What does volume in zero dimensions mean?
- Sheldon Cooper
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Graduate Envelope(s) of the Sinc function
- greswd
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Challenge of Square Root Problem
- anemone
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Undergrad How many ways a number can be written as components sum?
- Adel Makram
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High School What are Mathematical Operations?
- Drakkith
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Find all combinations of a,b,c
- Albert1
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Graduate Archimedes' area of a sphere proof; proposition 2
- Ebenshap
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Find the Smallest of A and B: $A-B=98$ with Multiple of 19 Digit-sum
- Albert1
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Find x_1+x_3+x_5+--------+x_999
- Albert1
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Prove it should have no solution
- Albert1
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Prove 1000th Progression of an Algebraic Series is Less than 1/79
- anemone
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Undergrad How to Factorize a Large Number for Permutations?
- Nader AbdlGhani
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Find x and y of form a+b√2 satisfying 2x+y-√(3x²+3xy+y²)=2+√2
- anemone
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I just want to know one divergent formula
- justone
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Is 2015! greater than 1008^2015?
- anemone
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Graduate How can we prove that integers can be defined as odd or even?
- Alpharup
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