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    High School Find Formula for 0, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4...

    a_{2n} = a_{2n-2} + 1 a_{2n+1} = a_{2n-1} + 1 a_0 = 0 a_1 = 1 cookiemonster
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    Graduate Unraveling the Mystery: Solving ln(ln(ln(ln x+4))) = e with Expert Help

    Please don't edit your posts to ask new questions. Just start a new topic. cookiemonster
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    High School Scientific law named after first name

    Most of the Greeks only had one name. cookiemonster
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    Which Enemy of the Christian Faith Are You?

    I'm a Nothing. cookiemonster
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    Graduate Unraveling the Mystery: Solving ln(ln(ln(ln x+4))) = e with Expert Help

    http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.0factorial.html cookiemonster
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    How did Mr. M solve ACME's problem?

    That's okay. I was never hired in the first place. cookiemonster
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    Undergrad Problem with a limit as infinity

    Horizontal asymptotes: limit as x goes to positive and negative infinity. Vertical asymptotes: the value(s) a such that limit as x goes to a, f(x) goes to positive or negative infinity. Found by setting the denominator equal to zero. cookiemonster
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    How did Mr. M solve ACME's problem?

    I want to drive a forklift through a wall! That sounds like fun. Maybe I'll go do that today! cookiemonster
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    Graduate Accepted Lies vs. Half-Truths: Why Do We Choose?

    Eh, you're right. I should have made a more constructive post. So here's a link to a previous push gravity thread found using the wonderful search feature. https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=16216&highlight=push+gravity As for studying for 2 years, neither you nor I are even...
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    Graduate Accepted Lies vs. Half-Truths: Why Do We Choose?

    What they're "doing," huh. Just what exactly does that mean anyway? I could probably find a source saying that a guy named Energy and a guy named Momentum are flipping burgers at the local McDonalds on Thursday and it'd support "what they're doing at a certain point in spacetime"! Okay...
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    Who's Excited for College Majoring in Mathematics and Physics?

    I took the cookies. Sorry. And I'll be taking these, too, thank you very much. cookiemonster
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    Solve for d/dx (sec 5x) with Expert Help | Derivative Troubleshooting

    Yes, do start a new thread. e(ho0n3, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CircularSector.html Electro, you know that the original radius of the circle is going to be the slant height and that that circumference of the base of the cone is going to be the same as the original cirumference minus the...
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    The internet is destroying grammar

    Or maybe "I spelled 'grammar' wrongly"? cookiemonster
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    How Fast Does the Ladder Slide Down the Wall?

    Use the Pythagorean Theorem. x^2 + y^2 = z^2 Diffentiate: x\frac{dx}{dt} + y \frac{dy}{dt} = z\frac{dz}{dt} Solve for the desired variable, dy/dt in this case \frac{dy}{dt} = \frac{z\frac{dz}{dt} - x\frac{dx}{dt}}{y} Plug in values you know, using x^2 + y^2 = z^2 to determine...
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    What I'm Doing This Summer: Summer School P.E. & Injury Recovery

    I am hopping between Santa Barbara, Oxnard, Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Dallas in a seemingly random pattern, perhaps one that Imp's automata can model. cookiemonster