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How to Create 4-by-4 Magic Square w/Sum 34
- soroban
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What is the sum of X and Y for real roots of two equations?
- anemone
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High School Why do I get different answers when solving equations in different ways?
- member 529879
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High School A Language Spin: The Paradox of Zero Multiplication and Social Perception
- Krokodzilla
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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 How to find x when y=x² mod 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 Distance from chord to ellipse end given dimensions
- 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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Can a Natural Number Satisfy n ≡ 1 (mod p) for All Primes in a Large Set?
- Bibubo
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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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Card trick using spelling to locate a chosen card
- 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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Compare A and B: which is smaller?
- 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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How many coulombs of charge in a 5 g 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 Smallest integer where left rotation gives 1.5 times the number
- 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 Computing 1 minus a very small number for gamma factor
- 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 How to write the Lorentz factor formula in LaTeX
- 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
- solarblast
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High School How many separate pieces does a rational function graph have?
- 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
- DivergentSpectrum
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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
- Dundee3
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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
- tmt1
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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
- pusekatja
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Computing The Arbitrary-Precision Nth Root Of Positive (X) In PHP
- Jay1
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Solve for a and b in these simultaneous equations
- anemone
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High School Digital Root: A Strangely Interesting Operation
- willr12
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Graduate These words should never be uttered by mathematicians
- Hercuflea
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