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    What causes latency from audio signal in to out in computers

    Buffering is the main cause of delay. A number of input samples are accumulated in a buffer before the software is notified about the buffer being ready for processing. It then does whatever processing you want it to do and sends another buffer to the audio interface which will output it 1...
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    Is it possible to be robbed through chemical means?

    Aren't there plenty of easier ways to rob people already?
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    Exploring De Moivre's Formula for Complex Numbers

    Well, actually I just used Wolfram Alpha to find that, but if we combine our formulas, we have just proved it's true.
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    Exploring De Moivre's Formula for Complex Numbers

    I'm not sure where your ln(i) comes from but that part is correct since ln(i) = i\pi/2. However it can be simplified further. I would have just written: i^{i} = (e^{i\pi/2})^{i} = e^{i i\pi/2} = e^{- \pi/2} and that's your answer since this is a real number already. (Wolfram Alpha confirms it)
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    Exploring De Moivre's Formula for Complex Numbers

    Start by rewriting in exponential form and then use: (eix)n = einx That should do the trick :wink:
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    Visualising the fourth dimension-can it be done?

    Playing 4 dimensional tic-tac-toe is a fun way to practice one's ability to "see" in 4 dimensions. We used to do that between classes when I was in engineering school. I think we used a 4x4x4x4 hypercube. Anyway that was fun but it won't really help visualizing more complex shapes.
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    Understanding Schrödinger's Cat: A Non-Physicist's Perspective

    The problem with any interpretation that requires an 'observer' is that you have to define what an observer is. Why would some physical entities be considered observers and not others? Humans, cats, worms, bacterias, computers, measuring equipments? How do you tell the difference? You'd have to...
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    C/C++ C++ Random Function: Generate Uniformly Distributed Numbers

    The standard rand() function is really bad and you'll run into problems very quickly (even for non-scientific applications like games). An easy solution is to use a Mersenne twister generator instead. (There are some ready to use implementations linked at the bottom of the wiki page).
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    Can Quantum Mechanics Explain the Uncertainty Principle?

    Except those "waves" also show particle-like behavior in some experiments. So they are something that has a particle aspect and a wave aspect. Now maybe we should have invented a new name to avoid confusion with classical particles, but when we refer to particles in a QM context we're really...
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