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    News Another government shutdown?

    Whether or not a majority of Americans favor the current budget, it appears that a majority of Americans would rather see the Senate continuing resolution passed than to have a government shutdown, but the House will not let such a bill come up for vote since a majority of Republicans opposed it.
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    News Is the US Red Line in Syria Just Empty Rhetoric?

    But Syria has more friends then Libya, e.g. Russia and China, so war with Syria would be much more costly and could easily draw the US into a war with unlimited consequences. Any war with Syria should have the same blessings of the international community as did the war with Libya.
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    News Is the US Red Line in Syria Just Empty Rhetoric?

    So where would we get the money to fight a war with Syria?
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    News Egypt's Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society

    Ihe focus of the Op is specifically "Michelle Bachelet, a former president of Chile and head of U.N. Women, which supports the commission, said the commission was unable to reach a deal a decade ago when it last focused on the theme of women's rights and ending violence against women." and the...
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    Mathematica How do I avoid the recursion limit in Mathematica?

    Thanks for the link. I was able to exceed the limit of 255 and found that if prime 317 is the input, then imy code gives nextprime is 323 when in fact the next prime is 331. So I have more work cut out for me. You can avoid the recursion limit with any code if you use...
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    Mathematica How do I avoid the recursion limit in Mathematica?

    I wrote code where you input a prime, P > 3, and the next prime is the output. However it involves using a recursive formula with the number of recursive steps being in the order of P and using the Mod operator. Thus P must be below 255. How can I avoid this. Follows is my code: prime = 127...
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    News Egypt's Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society

    Although such an attitude may be unacceptable to most countries, I feel the UN should take the pragmatic approach and remove much of the specific provisions dealing with equal status in the economic and reproductive rights within marriage, and other rights such as contraception and reproductive...
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    News Egypt's Islamists warn giving women some rights could destroy society

    The last statement on human rights (this setting up the "Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission of the OIC") was in the summer of 2012. See http://www.oicun.org/75/20120607051141117.html Note is made of the following Articles: " Article 3 The Commission shall be composed of 18...
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    Optimal Methods for Factoring Equations

    I don't know what an examiner would prefer, but the layout you used in the original post is both my preferred way and what Mathematical used. I don't see a bunch of choices like you suggested. Mathematica 8 only gave me 3 a ( 1 + 2 a + 5 a^2)!
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    Optimal Methods for Factoring Equations

    Mathematica 8 gives your answer with either of the following inputs: Factor[3 x + 6 x^2 + 15 x^3] or Factor[3x + 6x^2 + 15x^3]. What version or format are you using? Note "Factor" must begin with a capital F and the expression must be put within square brackets, etc.
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    Newpaper reports on Pi Day 3.14

    There was a court case in the US Patent and Trademark Office where the Judges disregarded the argument of an attorney and ruled that the court would use the "more precise value of 22/7" in its calculations.
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    Newpaper reports on Pi Day 3.14

    Every integer but zero can be expressed as an infinite number, but the length of an integer is technically speaking "the highest power of 10 less or equal to the absolute value of the integer", plus 1.
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    Newpaper reports on Pi Day 3.14

    Technically speaking, the length of a decimal number does not include an ending infinite string of zeros because the portion of those zeros after the decimal point can be dropped without changing the value of the number. Thus the length of 1 or 1/10 is 1 and the length of 1/80 or 1/10000 is 4...
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    Newpaper reports on Pi Day 3.14

    "Most people with a basic understanding of math probably knew that Thursday was 3.14 and therefore Pi Day, because that is the number of the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter." "But the actual number is much longer -- in fact, the decimals go on for at least 10 trillion...
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