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    How Can You Calculate Winning Probabilities in a Game with T's, D's, and I's?

    I did the second, I'm a bit disappointed there isn't a more clever mathy way to go about things. :frown:
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    How Can You Calculate Winning Probabilities in a Game with T's, D's, and I's?

    I wanted to model a particular game and determine the probability for each team to win. I have no idea how to do the determination of probability part, but here's the game broken down: There are 3 types of players, T's, D's and I's. The amount of each type of player is as follows: 1/8 D...
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    Proof of infinite primes (why is it wrong?)

    Okay I understand better now. Sorry to put you through that and thanks for the clean up of my original argument (like pi - 1 rather than m). As I explained before, any percent reduction 1/j where 0< j <pi hurts the cause of having the product of all the primes inverse being as small as...
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    Proof of infinite primes (why is it wrong?)

    I do not make the claim: at most 100 numbers should be left. I make the claim that you are removing at most 1/3 of the numbers remaining after removing numbers divisible by 2. In the case where you are not removing the maximum allowed numbers from the list of unfactorable numbers (say for...
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    Proof of infinite primes (why is it wrong?)

    I'm not exactly sure how to say this but I'll try my best. When pi is appended to the list of primes, it is not possible to remove the same number from the list of remaining unfactorable numbers multiple times. For example when 6 is removed from the list of remaining unfactorable numbers by...
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    Proof of infinite primes (why is it wrong?)

    Are there any good books I could read that would help me learn to formalize a proof like this? Because I have no idea where to start!
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    Proof of infinite primes (why is it wrong?)

    So I thought up a "proof" for infinite primes. I'm assuming I did something wrong, but I don't know what, it would be nice if someone could tell me what I did wrong. Suppose there are a finite number of primes of quantity n which are listed from smallest to largest in the list: p1, p2, ... ...
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    General Equation for Sn in Terms of n

    Okay thanks again, I understand now.
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    General Equation for Sn in Terms of n

    Thanks a lot for explaining that, there's something I don't understand though: The integral equation evaluated at ##x=0## forces ##c=0##. Why is c=0 forced? Why isn't it c=1?
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    General Equation for Sn in Terms of n

    That's neat! How did you get that result?
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    General Equation for Sn in Terms of n

    Sn = ∑ni = 1 (Sn - i)-1 S0 = 1 I want to know how to find the general equation for Sn (An example of what I mean by "general equation" would be Sn = ∑ni = 1i = n(n+1)/2). Here's S0 though S5: S0 = 1 S1 = 1 S2 = 1 + 1 S3 = 1 + 1 + 1/2 S4= 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 2/5 S5 = 1 + 1 + 1/2 + 2/5 +...
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    Proving the non-existence of a function.

    Well I had said Under the specification that N(x) is an elementary function, it cannot exist as I have shown.
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    Proving the non-existence of a function.

    Hello! I want to know more ways to show the non-existence of the elementary function N(x). Here's how N(x) is defined: g(x) : Any elementary function. N'(g(x)) = \frac{g(x)}{e^{N(g(x))}} I've only thought of a single way to show this impossibility and it doesn't really develop my...
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    Finding the nth Partial Sum for a Series Involving Floor and Mod Operators

    Something else that could possibly be used is: \displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{\lfloor log(n) \rfloor} \lfloor \frac{n}{10^k} \rfloor = \displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{\lfloor log(n) \rfloor} \frac{n}{10^k} - \displaystyle\sum_{k=0}^{\lfloor log(n) \rfloor} \frac{n}{10^k} mod 1 Where mod represents...
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    Finding the nth Partial Sum for a Series Involving Floor and Mod Operators

    n=a_1a_2...a_k I think it would be: a_1a_2...a_k + a_1a_2...a_{k-1} + ... + a_1a_2 + a_1
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