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Undergrad How Many Corners Does a Moving Diameter Intersect on a Grid?
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Undergrad How to relate multiplication of irrational numbers to real world?
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Undergrad Proof of Addition Reversibility
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Undergrad Infinity: Is it Completed or Contradictory?
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Undergrad How Does Scaling Affect the Coordinates of a Rectangle in the Plane?
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Undergrad What should I say about elementary number theory?
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Undergrad Definition of Cartesian Coordinate System
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Undergrad What is the Role of Direct Calculation in Planar Rotation Commutativity?
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Undergrad Solving this Equation that Wolfram Alpha doesn't compute....
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Undergrad Who is Right: Backward Difference Table or Forward Difference Table?
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Undergrad Discrete Optimization Problem?
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Undergrad Is a Vertical Line the Correct Depiction for this Equation?
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Undergrad Why is Graham's number a factor of 3?
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Undergrad Polynomial of finite degree actually infinite degree?
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Undergrad Wallis' Formula and Quantum Mechanics
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Undergrad Absorption of Radiation: Calculating Sphere Area
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Undergrad Periodic potential V(x) -- how can I show that the period is d?
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Undergrad All partitions of 10 into size 6
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Undergrad Line count in a simple program
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Undergrad Solve ln(a/b+1) Using Identity ln(a+b)=ln b + ln(a/b+1)
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Undergrad How did Euclid go about forming his propositions?
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Undergrad Terminology: equation collapse
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Undergrad What went wrong in the algebraic steps for ln rules?
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Undergrad Getting Points Inside Of A Polygon
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Undergrad Euclid's Formula as a test for sufficiency
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Undergrad Are All Triangles Actually Isosceles? Discover My Greek-Euclidean Proof!
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Undergrad Bezout Identity: Is r∈S U {0} Necessary to Prove?
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Undergrad Infinity x 0: Is the Answer Zero?
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Undergrad What is the meaning of the superscript "+"?
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Undergrad What are the differences between Sierpinski/Vicsek fractals?
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Undergrad Can we have modulo a negative number?
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Undergrad Number Pattern: 121 --> 111211 --> 311221
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Undergrad When was the first time the abbreviation "RSA" appeared?
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Undergrad Cartesian and polar terminology
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Undergrad Is There a Simpler Way to Understand Mathematics?
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Undergrad How do Calculators add fractions with different denominators
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Undergrad Collinear Points: Are (1,0) & (0,1) Aligned?
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Undergrad What is a Single Component Network?
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Undergrad Informational content in 2D discrete Fourier transform
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Undergrad Distance between points on a regular tetrahedron
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Undergrad What are the resources for Pythagorean triples?
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Undergrad Can Quadratic Forms Map Integers to Integers?
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Undergrad How to calculate angular rotation for a 2D line?
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Undergrad Degenerate Triangles: Questions & Poincaré Conjecture
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Undergrad Do we consider a point in a coordinate system to be a scalar?
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Undergrad Understanding the concept of infinity
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Undergrad General formula for a sequence of numbers
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Undergrad Explanation for the hyperbolic array of light rays.
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Undergrad Enumerating integers n s.t. 36 | 48n
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Undergrad Proof that cube roots of 2 and 3 are irrational
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Undergrad Is there a resource which is good questions on quadratic
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Undergrad How to introduce quadratic residues?
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Undergrad Largest sphere in the space between dense packed spheres
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Undergrad What is the Cheapest Route to Visit 6 Destinations in Tokyo?
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Undergrad What math topics should one master for first year physics?
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Undergrad What is the term for a set of loci that are the same?
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Undergrad F(x, y) describing a distorted 3D Gaussian bell
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Undergrad What Does Normalization Achieve in Montgomery's Pair Correlation Conjecture?
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Undergrad Modular Forms-Fundamental Domain
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Undergrad A formula for the number of structures composed of n squares
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Undergrad Solving the Basel problem using Gauss's law
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Undergrad What is the most motivating way to introduce primitive roots
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Undergrad Can the Ionians continue counting indefinitely while following their four rules?
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Undergrad What Functions Satisfy f(x)f(-x) = 1?
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Undergrad Derive Pi: An Easy Guide Without Complex Math
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Undergrad Name those trigonometric functions
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