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Undergrad What is the Probability of Someone Replicating Your Actions in a Day?
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Graduate Identifying distributions in time series
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Graduate Solve SAT Math & Listening Tests: 90% Confidence Interval
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Undergrad How Many 3-Letter Arrangements of aabbcccdddd Are Possible?
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Undergrad Topology for Beginners: Describing a Torus
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Graduate Proving Equal Cardinality of 0 < x < 1 & 0 < x ≤ 1
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Undergrad Using summation with probability question
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Graduate How can I prove [(A^B)-(B^C)]-(A^C)'=0 using contradiction?
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Undergrad Probability of 0-6 Students in Class of 20 - Help!
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High School Toss a Pair of Threes Twice: What Are the Odds?
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Graduate Understanding 0-ary Functions: Universe & Individuals
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High School Can You Assume the Converse in Mathematical Proofs?
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Undergrad Probability Distribution of X, Y & N(i): Questions & Answers
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Undergrad How can I prove that 34n+2 + 26n+3 is divisible by 17 using induction?
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Graduate Fourier analysis and prob. distributions?
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Undergrad Probability question help
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Graduate Poisson Approximation to Binomial
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Undergrad Is a Spearman's Coefficient of 1 Indicative of a Linear Relationship?
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Graduate Is It Ever Necessary to Assign Multiple Letters to a Single Sentence?
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Graduate Making an open statement to satisfy two conditions help
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Undergrad Why is Pascal's triangle a powerful tool in solving mathematical problems?
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High School Help Needed: Proving Logical Equivalence of (C -> A) and (!C -> B)
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Undergrad What is "Z" - Alphas, LaTex & MathType Explored
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Undergrad Probability and Geometry
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Graduate What is P(B) given conditional probabilities and the complement of A?
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Graduate Understanding Uncountable Well-Ordered Sets: An Intuitive Explanation
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Graduate Tableau Proof for All x P(x) V Q(x) $\supset$ Exists y P(y) V Exists z Q(z)
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High School Calculating n!(N-n)!: N = 16, n = 3
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High School FINANCIAL MATH: Question on Compounding Interest Semi-annually
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Graduate Line of real numbers-transcendental numbers
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Undergrad Calculating the Probability of a Shared Birthday among n People
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Graduate Characteristic function of an exponential distribution
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Graduate What is the loop invariant for proving the LCM algorithm?
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Graduate Characteristic function (Probability)
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Graduate What is the role of definitions in an axiomatic theory?
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Undergrad Unknown in discrete variable problem
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Undergrad Calculating the Expected Number of People Arriving at a Restaurant in an Hour
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High School Such an easy math problem but i can't do it help
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Graduate Understanding how Strong Induction works
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Graduate Good books for logic, proofs course?
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Undergrad Learning Probability: Solving a Density Function Problem
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Graduate Proof that, (1/0 = 1/0) is false.
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Graduate Proving the Existence of a Greatest Element in a Set
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Undergrad Proving the Summation Formula for 1/(n(n+1)) Using Mathematical Induction
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Undergrad Computing Statistical Distributions: A Practical Guide
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Undergrad Master Propositional Logic Deductions: How to Infer R -> S with Q and R Premises
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Graduate Who has actually read Godel's theorems?
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Graduate Negating a Math Equation: ( \exists x ) ( \forall y ) \Phi (x,y )
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Undergrad Solve Stats Prob: Colgate Total US Market Results
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Undergrad Verifying Lottery Combinations: 49 Choose 6
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Undergrad Find a: Solve Discrete Math Problem with a & x Intergers
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Graduate Collecting different rules for Natural Deduction
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Undergrad Proving: n^2 % 3 = 0 Implies n % 3 = 0
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Undergrad Arbitrary function is true when n = 1
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Graduate Countably infinite sigma-algebra
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High School Steps on how to simplify log5/log125 to 1/3
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Graduate How Do Weights and Degrees Influence the Structure of Logical Formulas?
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Graduate Is the Russell Class a Member of Itself?
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Undergrad Amazingly simple probability question
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Graduate There Exists a Unique Solution?
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Graduate The Paradox of Russell: Understanding Modern Set Theory
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Graduate Proving XOR Commutativity: Sufficiency of Tautology
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Graduate Proving the Law of Large Numbers & Chebyshev's Theorem
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High School Are Disjoint Sets Truly Without Common Elements?
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Undergrad How is the normal distribution formula derived?
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Undergrad Question bout normal distribution:
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Undergrad Logic and Set Theory Book Suggestions for Beginners
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High School Fuzzy Logic Simplified: Understanding the Basics
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High School Understanding the Probability of Coin Toss and Spin | MathWorld
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Undergrad Is it possible to prove that -(-A)=A using the concept of set subtraction?
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Graduate How can we prove theorems in mathematics without using specific functions?
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Graduate What the hell is going on with this recursive function
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Graduate Prove Jensen's Inequality: Var[X] ≥ (E[X])^2
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Undergrad Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient
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Graduate Quantifiers, emptiness, and vacuous truth
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High School Quick set builder notation question
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Graduate Question about gamma distribution
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Graduate To parenthesize, or not to parenthesize (that is the question)
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High School Just a general probablility question
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Graduate Can infinities have different sizes?
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Undergrad How do I find the radix r of equalities?
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Graduate Can This Propositional Logic Proof Be Presented More Formally?
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Undergrad What are the domain, range, x-intercept, and vertical asymptote of y=logₓ4?
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Graduate Events {(-1)^n i.o.} and {1/n Almost Always} in Probability Space (R, B, P)
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Undergrad Why Does Switching Doors Give You a 2/3 Chance of Winning?
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Undergrad Combining Calculus and Statistics: The Perfect Pair for Advanced Data Analysis
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High School Is the Probability of Events Always 50% Regardless of Odds?
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