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    Why Are Only Constant Functions Continuous in Concrete Topology?

    Wow! I am being totally dense. Sorry. It was one of those days. SBRH
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    How many homomorphisms are there

    Yeah, yeah, yeah... I just realized my silly mistake and came back to announce its sillyness! Ignore my previous reply. SBRH
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    How many homomorphisms are there

    I believe that there are other homomorphisms. Think about the subgroups of S_5. Does it have any cyclic subgroups of order 5? SBRH
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    Why Are Only Constant Functions Continuous in Concrete Topology?

    No, I read it. It is true that in the discrete topology, the only continuous functions are constant. This is not true with the concrete topology. If X is more than one point, then f(x)=x for all x in X is a continuous, non-constant function in the concrete topology.SBRH
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    Why Are Only Constant Functions Continuous in Concrete Topology?

    Since the question about concrete topology is a follow up to a question about discrete topology, I'd bet that the question was intended to have concrete replaced with discrete. SBRH
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    The Meaning of Dividing an Area by a Length

    It would also be meaningful if you were trying to maximize the ratio of the area contained within a curve to the length of the curve. SBRH
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    1st year calc. trig, and inequalities

    For 1) you should use the fact that cot(x)= cos(x) / sin(x) instead of the adjacent/opposite stuff. Then try to manipulate the given equation to look like an identity that you already know. SBRH
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    How A Threesphere Would Look or Work?

    Topologically, a 3-sphere is the one point compactification of 3-space, so it can be thought of as 3-space with an extra point. This way of thinking completely ignores the metric unless you put a strange metric on 3-space. A good way to visualize the geometry of the 3-sphere (or other...
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    Interesting problem about latitude

    Another way to do this was discovered by Archimedes, but is easy to prove using basic differential geometry. Place the sphere inside a cylinder of radius a and height 2a so that the center of the sphere lies on the center axis of the cylinder. Define a map by projecting each point on the...
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