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  1. I believe he means that o(a mod b)|h for all a^h = 1 (mod b)

    o means order of a mod b - that is, the lowest number o>0 such that a^o = 1 (mod b)

    It's a simple proof: Assume we have an h such that o(a mod b) does not divide h. Then by division algorithm, we have an r: d = r + xh, 0 <= r < h. a^d = a^r*a^xh = a^r * (a^h)^x = a^r*1^x = a^r, so a^r = 1. But then, as r < h, that means r must be 0. Therefore, d = xh, so h|d.

    =Uncool=

  2. Typo: Integration by parts is:

    integral(u dv) = uv - integral(v du)

     

    Personally, I like translation of coordinates with Jacobian...

    doubleintegral(F(x,y)dy dx) = doubleintegral(F(x(a,b),y(a,b))J((x,y),(a,b))db da)

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  3. Once again you are basing your answer on charcoal (lump). I dont' want that. Imagine a carbon atom. Now set fire to it. How much energy do you need to start the ignition? There are no chain reaction here. Puff and there you have CO2. How much energy is released?

    :confused:

    Since you are giving the fire the fuel, the only thing the fire needs is oxygen. However, what happens to the CO2? It gets moved away. This was just answered. The only way for fuel to put out the fire is if you have a limited area, for example, in a pot. You can add extra fuel and cover the pot, making the fire go out faster due to more CO2 production. However, if the pot is uncovered, the fire will actually draw in oxygen, and therefore not be extinguished.

    =Uncool=

  4. If you assume a perfectly random shuffle, meaning that any of the 52! possibilities are equally likely, then you are describing a geometric random variable. The expected value of a geometric random variable is 1/ the parameter, which in this case is 1/52!. So it would take, on average, 52! times to get back to the original order.

  5. You want the greatest possible value of AB*AC for this, because Area = AB*AC * sin(A)/2

    AB = e cos(a)

    AC = e cos(45-a)

    AB*AC = e^2*cos(a)cos(45-a)

    AB*AC*sin(A)/2 = e^2*cos(a)cos(45-a)sqrt(2)/4

    The maximum is when a = 45 - a, or a = 22.5.

    e^2*cos(22.5)^2*sqrt(2)/4 = e^2*(cos(45)+1)*sqrt(2)/8

    = e^2*(1 + sqrt(2))/8

    =Uncool=

  6. About the looking around then eye contact thing, two things:

    First, it's counting the hits and forgetting the misses -that is, you only remember when it happens, not when it doesn't. So you think that it happens more often than it does.

    Second, people look for eye contact. When they look around, and they see someone staring at them, the natural urge is to stare back. So your experience isn't very strange at all, Bettina.

    -Uncool-

  7. I'm trying to find some general things about orbits in gravitational systems in multiple dimensions. I've already found that it has to all be in one plane (easy enough), and now I'm assuming the following:

    [math]F = \frac{g*m_1*m_2}{d^{#dim-1}}[/math]

    [math]F_{x} = F*\frac{x}{d}[/math]

    [math]F_{y} = F*\frac{y}{d}[/math]

    So:

    [math]\frac{d^{2}y}{y*dt^2}=\frac{d^{2}x}{x*dt^2}[/math]

    [math]Let |x| = e^{f(t)}[/math]

    [math]|y|=e^{g(t)}[/math]

    [math]\frac{dx}{dt}=f'(t)e^{f(t)}[/math]

    [math]\frac{d^{2}x}{dt^{2}}=f''(t)e^{f(t)}+f'(t)^{2}e^{f(t)}[/math]

    [math]\frac{dy}{dt}=g'(t)e^{g(t)}[/math]

    [math]\frac{d^{2}y}{dt^{2}}=g''(t)e^{g(t)}+g'(t)^{2}e^{g(t)}[/math]

    So:

    [math]f''(t)+f'(t)^{2}=g''(t)+g'(t)^{2}[/math]

    [math]f''(t)-g''(t)=g'(t)^{2}-f'(t)^{2}[/math]

    [math]\frac{(f'(t)-g'(t))'}{f'(t)-g'(t)}=-f'(t)-g'(t)[/math]

    [math]ln|f'(t)-g'(t)|=-f(t)-g(t)+C[/math]

    [math]f(t)=ln(|x|),g(t)=ln(|x|)[/math]

    [math]f'(t)=\frac{x'}{x},g'(t)=\frac{y'}{y}[/math]

    [math]|\frac{x'}{x}-\frac{y'}{y}|=C/|xy|[/math]

    [math]|x'y-y'x|=C[/math]

    Since it is constant, let us assume that x'y is always greater.

    [math]x'y-y'x=C[/math]

    Can anything happen from there?

    -Uncool-

  8. Why aren't rationals suspect to Cantor's diagonal proof? That is, can anyone give a proof that they aren't suspect? And can you try to prove this without taking the method of proving that they are countable first?

    Let's just take rationals between 0 and 1 in binary to simplify things this way.

     

     

    Cantor's diagonal proof for the real numbers goes as follows:

    Proven: The real numbers between 0 and 1 are uncountable (they have no one-to-one correspondence with the integers).

    Proof:

    Let us assume the real numbers between 0 and 1 are countable. Then write them down in any order in a table. Put them in binary for simplicity.

    Then, take the 1st number after the decimal place in the first number, the second digit after the decimal place in the second, etc. and create a number such that the digits are switched from the number created by the earlier method. This number must be different from all numbers in the table because for the nth number, the nth digit is different. Even if you add this number, there will be another number for the new table which will be different than every element.

    For example:

    Table:

    .0

    Element not in the table: .1

     

    Table:

    .00

    .10

    Element not in table: .11

    .000

    .100

    .110

    Element not in table: 0.111

    etc.

    -Uncool-

  9. OK, matt, you are correct. I made a mistake (I divided two logs, and accidentally put the division inside). Shows wat happens when you skip a step...

    A few line break problems with what I had, too, though. The ln[n] is always decreasing... is supposed to be on a separate line.

    -Uncool-

  10. Someone tell me if my math is correct?

    [math] n^n[/math] acts like [math]n!e^n[/math], as follows:

    [math] \frac{(n+1)^{n+1}}{n^n} = (n+1)\frac{(n+1)^n}{n^n}[/math]

    [math]=(n+1)\frac{n^n+n*n^{n-1}+\frac{n(n-1)}{2}*n^{n-2}+...}{n^n}[/math]

    [math]=(n+1)\frac{n^n*(1+1+\frac{1}{2}+...)+n^{n-1}*(-\frac{1}{2}-\frac{3}{6}-\frac{6}{24}-\frac{10}{120}-...)}{n^n}[/math]

    The last terms can be dropped out because they contain a [math]\frac{1}{n}[/math] term.

    [math]=(n+1)\frac{n^n*e}{n^n}=e*(n+1)[/math]

    so after a while, the two act similarly.

    In this case, similarly means that if you take the ln of both and divide them, the quotient will approach one, as shown below:

    n	[math]n!*e^n[/math]   	[math]n^n[/math] 	Ratio
    1	2.718281828	1            	2.718281828
    2	14.7781122	4            	3.694528049
    3	120.5132215	27          	4.46345265
    4	1310.355601	256        	5.118576566
    5	17809.57909	3125       	5.69906531
    6	290468.7313	46656    	6.225752986
    7	5527031.118	823543        	6.711284193
    8	120192226	16777216	7.164014938
    9	2940447096	387420489	7.58980792
    10	79929639076	10000000000	7.992963908
    11	2.38998E+12	2.85312E+11	8.376748609
    12	7.79598E+13	8.9161E+12	8.743710992
    13	2.75492E+15	3.02875E+14	9.095885843
    14	1.04841E+17	1.1112E+16	9.434928193
    15	4.27481E+18	4.37894E+17	9.762205686
    16	1.85922E+20	1.84467E+19	10.07886392
    17	8.59161E+21	8.2724E+20	10.38587387
    18	4.2038E+23	3.93464E+22	10.684067
    19	2.17115E+25	1.97842E+24	10.97416181
    20	1.18036E+27	1.04858E+26	11.25678423
    21	6.73795E+28	5.84259E+27	11.53248351
    22	4.02944E+30	3.41428E+29	11.80174472
    23	2.51923E+32	2.08805E+31	12.06499882
    24	1.64351E+34	1.33374E+33	12.32263074
    25	1.11688E+36	8.88178E+34	12.57498598
    26	7.89361E+37	6.15612E+36	12.82237603
    27	5.7934E+39	4.43426E+38	13.06508291
    28	4.40947E+41	3.31455E+40	13.30336289
    29	3.47599E+43	2.56769E+42	13.53744971
    30	2.83462E+45	2.05891E+44	13.76755723
    31	2.38864E+47	1.70692E+46	13.99388172
    32	2.07776E+49	1.4615E+48	14.21660385
    33	1.86382E+51	1.2911E+50	14.43589032
    34	1.72257E+53	1.17566E+52	14.65189539
    35	1.63885E+55	1.10251E+54	14.86476209
    36	1.60375E+57	1.06387E+56	15.07462336
    37	1.61299E+59	1.05551E+58	15.28160301
    38	1.66614E+61	1.07591E+60	15.48581657
    39	1.76632E+63	1.12595E+62	15.68737206
    40	1.92054E+65	1.20893E+64	15.88637066
    41	2.14044E+67	1.33088E+66	16.08290725
    42	2.44369E+69	1.50131E+68	16.27707102
    43	2.85634E+71	1.73438E+70	16.46894589
    44	3.4163E+73	2.05077E+72	16.65861095
    45	4.17892E+75	2.48064E+74	16.84614083
    46	5.22536E+77	3.06803E+76	17.03160605
    47	6.67588E+79	3.87792E+78	17.21507334
    48	8.71052E+81	5.00702E+80	17.39660591
    49	1.1602E+84	6.60097E+82	17.57626371
    50	1.57688E+86	8.88178E+84	17.75410364
    51	2.18607E+88	1.21921E+87	17.9301798
    52	3.09002E+90	1.70677E+89	18.10454364
    53	4.45176E+92	2.43568E+91	18.27724417
    54	6.53462E+94	3.54212E+93	18.4483281
    55	9.76961E+96	5.24745E+95	18.61784
    56	1.4872E+99	7.91643E+97	18.78582241
    57	2.3042E+101	1.2158E+100	18.952316
    58	3.6329E+103	1.9003E+102	19.11735968
    59	5.8264E+105	3.0218E+104	19.28099067
    60	9.5026E+107	4.8874E+106	19.44324464
    61	1.5757E+110	8.0375E+108	19.60415578
    62	2.6555E+112	1.3436E+111	19.76375689
    63	4.5477E+114	2.2827E+113	19.92207945
    64	7.9116E+116	3.9402E+115	20.0791537
    65	1.3979E+119	6.9083E+117	20.23500872
    66	2.5079E+121	1.23E+120	20.38967246
    67	4.5675E+123	2.2234E+122	20.54317183
    68	8.4427E+125	4.0795E+124	20.69553274
    69	1.5835E+128	7.596E+126	20.84678014
    70	3.0131E+130	1.435E+129	20.9969381
    71	5.8153E+132	2.7501E+131	21.14602983
    72	1.1381E+135	5.3449E+133	21.29407772
    73	2.2585E+137	1.0533E+136	21.44110339
    74	4.543E+139	2.1045E+138	21.58712774
    75	9.2619E+141	4.2618E+140	21.73217094
    76	1.9134E+144	8.7465E+142	21.87625251
    77	4.0049E+146	1.8188E+145	22.01939133
    78	8.4914E+148	3.8316E+147	22.16160566
    79	1.8235E+151	8.176E+149	22.30291319
    80	3.9654E+153	1.7668E+152	22.44333104
    81	8.731E+155	3.8662E+154	22.58287582
    82	1.9461E+158	8.5652E+156	22.7215636
    83	4.3908E+160	1.9208E+159	22.85940999
    84	1.0026E+163	4.3597E+161	22.99643011
    85	2.3165E+165	1.0014E+164	23.13263866
    86	5.4154E+167	2.3274E+166	23.26804987
    87	1.2807E+170	5.4724E+168	23.40267759
    88	3.0635E+172	1.3016E+171	23.53653527
    89	7.4114E+174	3.1312E+173	23.66963596
    90	1.8132E+177	7.6177E+175	23.80199238
    91	4.4851E+179	1.874E+178	23.93361686
    92	1.1216E+182	4.661E+180	24.06452141
    93	2.8355E+184	1.172E+183	24.19471773
    94	7.2453E+186	2.9786E+185	24.32421718
    95	1.871E+189	7.6514E+187	24.45303083
    96	4.8825E+191	1.9863E+190	24.58116948
    97	1.2874E+194	5.2102E+192	24.70864361
    98	3.4295E+196	1.3809E+195	24.83546345
    99	9.2291E+198	3.6973E+197	24.961639
    100	2.5087E+201	1E+200   	25.08717995
    101	6.8876E+203	2.7319E+202	25.2120958
    102	1.9097E+206	7.5373E+204	25.33639579
    103	5.3468E+208	2.1001E+207	25.46008894
    104	1.5115E+211	5.9084E+209	25.58318404
    105	4.3143E+213	1.6783E+212	25.7056897
    106	1.2431E+216	4.8131E+214	25.82761431
    107	3.6156E+218	1.3934E+217	25.94896604
    108	1.0615E+221	4.0716E+219	26.0697529
    109	3.145E+223	1.2008E+222	26.18998271
    110	9.404E+225	3.5743E+224	26.3096631
    111	2.8374E+228	1.0736E+227	26.42880153
    112	8.6385E+230	3.254E+229	26.54740531
    113	2.6535E+233	9.9509E+231	26.66548157
    114	8.2227E+235	3.0701E+234	26.78303728
    115	2.5704E+238	9.5555E+236	26.90007926
    116	8.1051E+240	3E+239   	27.01661421
    117	2.5777E+243	9.5005E+241	27.13264864
    118	8.2683E+245	3.0344E+244	27.24818895
    119	2.6746E+248	9.7744E+246	27.36324141
    120	8.7243E+250	3.175E+249	27.47781213
    121	2.8695E+253	1.04E+252	27.59190713
    122	9.5162E+255	3.4348E+254	27.70553227
    123	3.1817E+258	1.1437E+257	27.81869332
    124	1.0725E+261	3.8396E+259	27.93139591
    125	3.6441E+263	1.2994E+262	28.04364558
    126	1.2481E+266	4.4329E+264	28.15544773
    127	4.3087E+268	1.5243E+267	28.26680769
    128	1.4992E+271	5.2829E+269	28.37773065
    129	5.257E+273	1.8453E+272	28.48822172
    130	1.8577E+276	6.4958E+274	28.59828591
    131	6.6152E+278	2.3043E+277	28.70792812
    132	2.3736E+281	8.2368E+279	28.81715318
    133	8.5814E+283	2.9667E+282	28.92596581
    134	3.1258E+286	1.0766E+285	29.03437064
    135	1.1471E+289	3.936E+287	29.14237222
    136	4.2405E+291	1.4497E+290	29.24997503
    137	1.5792E+294	5.3792E+292	29.35718345
    138	5.9239E+296	2.0105E+295	29.46400178
    139	2.2383E+299	7.5693E+297	29.57043425
    140	8.518E+301	2.8703E+300	29.67648501
    141	3.2648E+304	1.0962E+303	29.78215814
    142	1.2602E+307	4.2164E+305	29.88745764
    

    -Uncool-

  11. [math]

    L = \lim_{n \to \infty} n!^\frac{1}{n}

    ln[L] = ln[\lim_{n \to \infty} n!^\frac{1}{n}] = \lim_{n \to \infty} ln[n!^\frac{1}{n}] = \lim_{n \to \infty} \frac{ln[n!]}{n}[/math]

    Ratio of one to the next:

    [math]ln[n]\frac{n-1}{n}

    ln[n][/math] is always increasing, and will increase infinitely.

    [math]\frac{n-1}{n}[/math] is always decreasing, and will decrease towards 1.

    Therefore, the ratio will increase beyond one, and remain beyond one.

    Therefore, ln[L] does not exixt.

    Therefore, L does not exist.

    -Uncool-

    P.S. that was my first real LATEX thing. yay! :D

  12. I think I have the answer as well.

    [hide]F projects to itself, as the two are on exactly the same plane. from H to M goes up one, over 1/2, and over the other way 1/2. From M to F goes up one, over 1/2, and over the other way 1/2. So the three are collinear, so F is on the plane, so its projection is itself.[/hide]

    -Uncool-

  13. This maze seems relatively easy, actually - just let yourself wander along a path, and go in a different direction if you find yourself in the same place, as there are no dead ends. Then erase the loops, and you have a short path.

    -Uncool-

  14. Imaginary numbers are the square roots of negative real numbers.

     

    Complex numbers are the sum of real numbers and imaginary numbers.

    -Uncool-

  15. OK, to remember it, just remember that you want to eliminate the middle terms. First the A term, then the B term.

     

    To eliminate the A term: Let [math]Y = Z + A/3[/math]

     

    Let this leave you with [math]Y^3 + PY + Q = 0[/math]

     

    To eliminate the P term: Let [math]Y = X-P/(3X)[/math]

     

    Let this leave you with [math]X^3 + M - N/X^3 = 0[/math]

     

    Find X^3 because this is a quadratic equation. Both will give the same final answer.

     

    Backsolve to find Z.

     

    Use this solution to reduce the cubic to a quadratic.

     

    Solve the quadratic for the other two roots.

     

    So pretty much all you have to do is remember how to eliminate each middle term.

    -Uncool-

  16. Pie is a type of good food.

    Pi, on the other hand, is the ratio of the length of the circumference of a circle to the length of the diameter. It is approximately 3.14159265.

    What else would you like to know?

    -Uncool-

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