General Math Forum

Join in expert discussion on general math topics that are not applicable to the specific categories. This includes topics are usually high school math level. Homework help is available.

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High School A Language Spin: The Paradox of Zero Multiplication and Social Perception

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Graduate Things vs Coordinates-of-Things

  • Stephen Tashi
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Undergrad Explanation of small angle approximation?

  • ah4p
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Find Real Roots of $\sqrt{x+3-4\sqrt{x-1}}+\sqrt{x+8-6\sqrt{x-1}}=1$

  • kaliprasad
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Graduate Can distinct integers with 8 subsets of 3 always form a magic square?

  • Greg Bernhardt
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How Far Does a Bookworm Travel Through a 3-Volume Set?

  • soroban
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High School Purpose of using 10^7 or any # raised

  • Niaboc67
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Undergrad What Determines the Existence of Solutions for Quadratic Residues Modulo N?

  • jostpuur
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Undergrad I need a better "method" for working out proofs and problems

  • dkotschessaa
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High School How Can You Solve the Algebraic Equation √((a+b) + 2 √ab) = √a + √b?

  • basty
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Undergrad Solving systems of equations with trig functions

  • cytochrome
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High School What is the easiest method for adding and subtracting rational numbers

  • jim1174
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Who do you consider the 3 greatest mathematicians ever?

  • PhysicsPrime
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Find the number of real numbers that satisfy the given equation

  • anemone
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High School A strange inconsistency with square roots

  • ELB27
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Undergrad Question about ellipse and chord

  • zyxwv99
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High School My first mathematical discovery. What was yours?

  • epenguin
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Undergrad Any interesting application of mathematics?

  • StephvsEinst
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Prove $m^2 \ge 4kx$ for Real Solutions of $x^3+mx+k=0$

  • anemone
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Solving the City Soccer Tournament Puzzle: Group A Results

  • mathgeek7365
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What is the area of triangle PQR divided into six smaller triangles?

  • anemone
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Who was the best father son math team?

  • johnqwertyful
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Amazing Card Trick - Jack of Hearts Discovered!

  • soroban
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Can You Identify These Equations on My New Watch?

  • Chloe Soza
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Find all quadruples (r, s, t, u)

  • anemone
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Find Integer Pairs $x,y$ with Infinitely Many Solutions

  • anemone
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Undergrad General definition of a discriminant

  • MathewsMD
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Problem using this formula both ways

  • dsryan
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Request for Huge List of Mathematics Ebooks

  • Blake Law
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Inequality: Prove $a^4+b^4+c^4 \ge abc(a+b+c)$

  • kaliprasad
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Is $p^3+4$ Prime if Both $p$ and $p^2+8$ are Prime Numbers?

  • Albert1
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Absolute Value with two expressions.

  • stuart4512
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Average speed for remaining 150-mile trip after first hour at 60 mph

  • lpollard8985
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Which is Smaller: Comparing Mathematical Expressions A and B?

  • Albert1
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Undergrad Reducing a mathematical expression

  • ralden
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Graduate Minimum time window needed to capture frequencies

  • Mindscrape
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Webpage title: Calculating Coulombs in a Nickel Coin

  • leprofece
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High School Any Good Books on History of Math?

  • bballwaterboy
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Undergrad Finding power figures from graph data

  • lownlazy
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High School Are There Only Three Ways to Solve Quadratic Equation?

  • bballwaterboy
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News Basel II: Numerical instabilities to stabilize banks?

  • DrDu
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High School Are Logarithms Useless? Why Need them Given Exponents?

  • bballwaterboy
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Can someone explain this? (Speed=Distance*Time)

  • dsryan
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High School How to Convert 180 Ton to kN/m?

  • Laurine
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Harmonic Numbers Identity Proof?

  • alyafey22
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Why is my teacher calling 2m+(50s)(0.5m/s) pure piffle?

  • thereidisanceman
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Graduate Squaring the Circle: A Practical Squaring Construction

  • Lasand
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High School Finding the remainder of an algebraic quotient

  • snoopies622
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High School Permutations and combinations - is square a rectangle?

  • AdityaDev
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Undergrad Challenge 22: Half Again As Big

  • Greg Bernhardt
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Solution Set in interval notation for inequality

  • datafiend
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Graduate Even and Odd functions - Fourier Series

  • MMS
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Undergrad How Can I Compute High Precision Square Roots for Special Relativity Homework?

  • BOAS
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High School What is the golden ratio?

  • TheBiologist
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Undergrad Why does Rcos(x+a) give the wrong graph when rewriting 2sin(x)-3cos(x)?

  • Deep_Thinker97
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MyMathLab grading error from 2012

  • ComplexVar89
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Graduate Time Dilation Calculator: 1/(sqrt 1-(v/c)^2) Explained

  • Force1
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Finding angle α between a line and horizontal

  • DanielBW
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Undergrad Computing Mass Distribution in Statics Problems

  • Enrico Miccolis
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Evaluating an Expression with $k^{101}=1$ and $k\ne1$

  • anemone
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Find the sum of the real roots

  • anemone
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Graduate LSQ Notation: Unusual Notation Explained by Herget 1948

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High School Pre-Calc. Question: Graphing Rational Functions

  • bballwaterboy
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Graduate Losing energy during Fast Fourier Transform

  • Gordon89
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Undergrad Construct a regular grid in a rectangular box in 3 dimensional space

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Sum of k-powers and divisibility

  • Bibubo
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Parameterisation of quadric surfaces of order 2

  • bugatti79
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Secondary Identity Confirmation

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Graduate Feynman's status as a mathematician

  • gamow99
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Possible Miscalculation on Identity-Completion

  • Dundee3
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Finding function given new input

  • zolton5971
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Translation of Sentence Into An Equation

  • zolton5971
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Finding the LCD of two expressions

  • zolton5971
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Finding the LCM of two expressions

  • zolton5971
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Find Formula for nth Term in Tuff Sequence

  • Wilmer
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No. of real solution of exponential equation

  • juantheron
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Using Angle Difference to Get Exact Value

  • zolton5971
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Rational Expression word problem

  • Pikachu1
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Function Long division question

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What Is the Remaining Balance After a Partial Discounted Payment?

  • ammanda
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How Do You Calculate the Discount Date Using the Dating Method?

  • ammanda
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Graduate Conjecture about the Prime Zeta Function

  • David Carroll
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Graduate V.I. Arnol'd's Mathematical Trivium

  • ZetaOfThree
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CTS and show the roots in this form

  • ai93
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Undergrad Probability of Having Two Boys - Riddle

  • micromass
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High School If a sum is 0, is the summand 0?

  • Dixanadu
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Solving for $\theta$: Which Value is a Counterexample?

  • eleventhxhour
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High School Is Absolute Value a Useless Concept?

  • bballwaterboy
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Undergrad Do we now express mm as the letter m with a superscript?

  • richard9678
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Tests of Divisibility- Simple tricks

  • burgess
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Why does raising a number to the power of 0 always result in 1?

  • OMGMathPLS
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Finding k in binomial expansion with constant term 16128

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Computing The Arbitrary-Precision Nth Root Of Positive (X) In PHP

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Solve for x & y: Simultaneous Equations

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High School Digital Root: A Strangely Interesting Operation

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Graduate These words should never be uttered by mathematicians

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Undergrad Multiplication by different units

  • thedy
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High School Why Isn't x/0 = x, Instead of Undefined?

  • bballwaterboy
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Finding Domain & Range of $$y=\sqrt{x^2+y^2}$$

  • Maged Saeed
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