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FactChecker reacted to jbriggs444's post in the thread Undergrad Meaning of division by non-whole real numbers with
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Are you comfortable with long division using pencil and paper? My generation was taught how to do this. There is no problem in... -
FactChecker replied to the thread Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise).I'm not sure that there is a solution. That would imply white, who has the advantage of the first move, has moves that guarantee black...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise).I'm sorry. I just made that up without thinking. All I know is that it would be a huge number. It's far too hard for me to figure out.
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FactChecker replied to the thread Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise).Your solution would have to to include the best answers for all 100! possible alternative combinations of opponent moves. That's quite...
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FactChecker replied to the thread An intuition I had about infinite numbers -- Is it valid?.Sure. Conceptually, you can divide the whole into 2 sets, assigning them alternately to one of the sets. Then you can pick one of those...
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FactChecker replied to the thread Undergrad Solving the chess game (quantum computer wise)."Solve" is too strong a word. A chess game "solution" depends on what the other player does at each move. It's a game theory problem and...
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Last year I asked an AI for a list of papers on a niche topic. I identified ten papers that I wanted to take a look at. Each of the...
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FactChecker reacted to gmax137's post in the thread It's been half a century - Why am I still warring with my printer? with
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I have a printer connected directly to my desktop computer. It worked fine for years, then one day the computer couldn't see the... -
8.5M research papers mapped into an interactive atlas https://tomesphere.com/atlas
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FactChecker replied to the thread It's been half a century - Why am I still warring with my printer?.This has been a question I have had for decades. Why is it so hard and mysterious to keep a printer connected? I truly have bought a...
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FactChecker reacted to DaveC426913's post in the thread It's been half a century - Why am I still warring with my printer? with
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I give up. Time to buy a new printer. Never mind when the ink runs out, I just but a new one whenever the network connection stops...