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Algebra problem
minimum cirdumference
Bayesian inference of a time-varying parameter
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Why does the dim function act much like the log function?
Riddle about politicians
Wave measured at random intervals
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Natural logarithm
Integrability
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Question about eigenvectors and eigenvalues
Algebra Problem
Closed form series solution
Find point closest to a plane
Searching for patters in a lattice
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Maths Question.
Logic in quantum theory
Equivalence of two congruences
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Population increase percentage
Obtaining an absolute sum.
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3SAT Question
Three-dimensional continuous chaotic system with an exact solution
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Integration
Time-weighted graph of sparse noisy data
The Derivative of a Function
Loan rates and overpayments
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Function
Periods
Embedding n-dimensional polyhedra into an k-dimension integer grid.
substitution and elimination methods d-rt
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analytic functions
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Summa cum laude or magna cum laude?
Please help me understand my lecturer's notes - metric spaces, norms and topologies
Lone dot used in norm symbol
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Obsolete typography
Intersection of circle and line
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Error with 1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + · · ·?
Sample median uncertainty from normal distribution contaminated with symmetric outliers
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Summation beginner
'Curved' objects
1917 arithmetic problem...
December 15[ edit ]
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Berry paradox in second order logic
Sieve of Atkin
Calculating average utilization of equipments
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P vs NP and Automated Theorem Proving
Is Gödel's incompleteness theorem really so dire?
TAOCP Vol 4A page 5
integrals
Exact trajectory of a point in a vector field
The Twelve Days of Christmas
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Induction and integration by parts
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Platonism vs formalism
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Marcus Hutter versus Yuri Matiyasevich
Statistical test for Gender, Race, and Socioeconomic status (three options) and a three-scale likert
Going between hexagonal and parallelogram tilings
ZFC being consistent if a proper sub-set of ZFC is consistent
December 22[ edit ]
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Linear Programming and Graph theory
Primitive Roots
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Help understanding an algorithm
Tensegrity
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Duck question?
number of jordan decomposition
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Even numbers among intervals of primes
Arc length in polar form
when can we say that we've found the root of an equation?
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Confused about complex exponentiation
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in what way is the sum of all positive integers -1/12
What is it called when an irrelevant outcome between 3rd place and 4th place determines who finishes 1st or 2nd?
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Optional stopping
Is there an algorithm which - for every first-order proposition (with identity and predicate symbols) - determines whether that propostion is consistent?
betting game
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15 Coin game
Order statistics
Sum of digits of 2^1000
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cavitation
Determinants
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