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Ppasmith replied to the thread Undergrad Uniform convergence and pointwise convergence.Consider also ##e^{-n\sin \theta}## for ##\theta \in [0, \pi]##.
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Ppasmith replied to the thread Modeling a graph that shows age in relation to depth of an ice sample.Responses, like the original post, should be typed and make use of LaTeX rather than screenshots.
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Ppasmith replied to the thread France to ditch Windows for Linux.I was working at the UK's Ministry of Defence just over 10 years ago when they rolled out Office 365. This involved the MOD making...
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Ppasmith replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.One can always resort to the Newton-Raphson method to solve ##\mathbf{f}(\mathbf{x}) = \nabla L = 0## by iteration, where each step...
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Ppasmith replied to the thread Undergrad Finding the minimum distance between two curves.If $$L = (y_1(x_1) - y_2(x_2))^2 + (x_1 - x_2)^2$$ then the partial derivatives are $$\begin{split} \frac{\partial L}{\partial x_1} &=...
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Ppasmith replied to the thread Solve the quadratic equation involving sum and product.This question seems poorly designed, in that part (i) has absolutely nothing to do with part (ii).