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Undergrad A nonlinear recurrence relation
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Undergrad Integer Cevians - Equilateral Triangles
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Undergrad How Do I Find the Slope and Intercept of this Crystal Formation Experiment?
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Undergrad Explaining the size of a water molecule
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Undergrad Sinusoids as Complex numbers (multiplication query)
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Undergrad Why is the Signal from a Discrete Fourier Transform considered periodic?
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Undergrad When does an inequality indicate a maximum or minimum value?
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Undergrad Periodic Functions: Meaning of 1-Periodicity
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Undergrad Is there another way that these statements can all be true?
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Undergrad Why Can't x/(x+1)^2 Be Split Like x/((x+1)(x+2))?
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Undergrad Uncovering the 10 Classes of Ratios in Greek Mathematics
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Undergrad Doubling a Cube: Can 3D Geometry Help?
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Undergrad Euler, De Moivre and a printing error
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Undergrad Rational powers of irrational numbers
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Undergrad How High Must You Be to See 1° of Earth's Curvature?
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Undergrad What does the vertical line in this equation mean?
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Undergrad How to calculate the tractive effort of a train?
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Undergrad Find Lowest Rung to Drop Bottles & Prevent Breakage - Problem Solving
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Undergrad Defining Legendre polynomials in (1,2)
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Undergrad Is this a paradox on the number line
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Undergrad What Lobachevski meant by parallel lines
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Undergrad Comparing two absolute value equations
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Undergrad Proof without words for Heron's formula
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Undergrad Can the Double Summation be Simplified?
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Undergrad No Way to Solve π(x) from Riemann's Zeta Function?
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Undergrad Primes and Polynomials
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Undergrad Is this a compound angle? What's the geometric meaning?
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Undergrad For every finite integer sequence there's a pattern- source?
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Undergrad What is the Proof of an Inequality for Three Positive Numbers?
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Undergrad [Signal and system] Function with fourier series a[k] = 1
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Undergrad What is the structure and purpose of abstracts in math papers?
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Undergrad Putting a point inside a triangle in 3D space
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Undergrad Fitting circles inside other circles
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Undergrad Proof that 0 + 0 +....+ 0 +.... = 0
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Undergrad Calculation of x from log equation
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Undergrad Longer math and physics problems
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Undergrad Understanding Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality
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Undergrad Finding the explicit solution of a trig equation
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Undergrad Proof: 0.9999 does not equal 1
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Undergrad Domain of the identity function after inverse composition
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Undergrad Help manipulating a Physics equation
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Undergrad How do you solve systems of equations in complex physics problems?
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Undergrad Can single variable equations always be solved using basic math principles?
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Undergrad How to Determine the Size of a K-Map?
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Undergrad Math used in Physics versus other sciences
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Undergrad What does this math symbol mean? R^4 |X SL(2,C)
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Undergrad What is the reason for sudden change in pattern in The Borwein Integral?
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Undergrad What are the definitions of Jacobi Elliptic Functions?
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Undergrad How do I factorise polynomials using a new method?
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Undergrad Intersecting Planes: Is It Possible?
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Undergrad Should I get a new graphing calculator?
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Undergrad Question about Euclid's parallel postulate (5th postulate).
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Undergrad Best equations to analyze using Big O
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Undergrad Why use i to represent y vector ?
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Undergrad Where has this proof gone wrong? ∞= 1/0
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Undergrad Prove that only one straight line passes through two point
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Undergrad What is the solution to the Binary puzzle in World of Warcraft?
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Undergrad Use of irrational numbers for coordinate system
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Undergrad Calibration of axis for Oragami folds
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Undergrad Simplified imaginary unit to the power of imaginary unit
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Undergrad Finding formula for nth term in sequence
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Undergrad Arm reaching algorithm determine angles
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Undergrad Is my classification of transcendental correct?
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Undergrad Are there any other occurrences of these interesting equalities?
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Undergrad What does"double-infinities" mean?
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Undergrad Arbirtary Extraction of Primes - From Ideal Fractal(s)?
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Undergrad Visualizing Solid Angle of a 3d Object (say a Sphere)
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Undergrad What Is the Minimal Number of Clusters With Shared Descriptors?
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Undergrad Testing Primality of 377 with Divisibility
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Undergrad I would simply like to know how to get 2^k.
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Undergrad How Does the Hyperbolic Axiom Define a Maximal Triangle?
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Undergrad Polynomial Division: Solve with Mike's Help!
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Undergrad Some questions from a numerical analysis book
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Undergrad What is the Gamma Function and Its Significance in Mathematics?
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Undergrad Did I Make a Mistake in my Coordinates? Help Needed!
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Undergrad Why are "irrational" and "transcendental" so commonly used to describe numbers
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Undergrad Square of Dirac delta function
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Undergrad Summation of 1^1+2^2+3^3+....+k^k
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Undergrad What are the implications of infinity?
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Undergrad Using trigonometry to create a radar for a game.
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Undergrad Triangle Numbers Algorithm: What is it?
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