... If you think of each investment separately, you can see how the "formula is developed [in case you want to use a formula]. First you identify the number...
Looking at this problem( http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=An9e5lXh3s13q9UitvBsSjXzy6I X?qid=20061001011413AAofBeT ): Starting at (1,1), a stone is...
Hi, It just happened again - my just punishment or nemisis. Actually, it should be called my anathema or object of hate. Let me give you some background. In...
... I am attracted to the logic that if you can get from (1,1) to (1,1) following the rules, then you could also do it in a "dilated model", and thus may be...
... point was not attempted so the score was 36-30. The rules of the game may not even allow the attempt at the extra point? A bit like the recent golfing...
... Hmm...Never thought about golf. It is clear for two players if player A has a score of say 60 in the first 9 and player B has finished with a score of 68,...
Can anyone tell me what is "the Sredinger problem"? Maybe I do not spell it correctly, but from what I've heard it has to do with a cat and a shelf or...
1 carton of apples contain 4 layers, each layer containing 24 apples. Apples arrive at a sorting station at a rate of 2160 per hour. When a carton is full, it...
The one thing you gotta remember is that sports rules are devised not with mathematiucal completeness in mind but simple practicality in terms of securing a...
In a message dated 10/5/2006 1:04:17 PM Central Standard Time, ... That it has to do with the "666" (see Revelation 13:18) that regularly recurs in the number...
... other ... are ... (±4,±3). ... A few weeks ago we were discussing resolving a circle given three points on it. re: variants. The circles were special...
... <tastyjuice007@...> ... apples. ... When a ... apples ... another ... someone ... Yes, it is a Poisson distribution. The number of apples per carton is ...
... There may be more than 12 points, if the radius is appropriate! Consider the simplest pythagorean triads 3-4-5 and 5-12-13 If the radius happens to be 65...
... 12 ... for ... multiple ... from? ... Oops! Thanks for that. I'll have to see if I can extend my method to cover cases like this. I think it will be too...
Wow... whodathunk that a geometry thread would have evolved (devolved... hehe) into probabilities? Wikipedia does has an interesting article on Pythagorean...
... 12 ... for ... multiple ... from? ... I was curious to find the smallest radius that could be made from three Pythagorean triads. Guess what? It's 65! In...
Good luck. Now we are talking probability. You only get to play 7 letters. "Comb" has four. "Combinatoric" has twelve. You will have to find other letters on...
I have been doing a investigation of partitions, involving the number of ways the number (3m^2 + 7m + 4)/2, where m is an integer, can be divided into m...
... I was being facetious with the subject of the post. However, a great deal of mathematical analysis can be gleened from sports. An example from American...
adh math to me More options Oct 5 (2 days ago) Hi Jason, Sorry for the long delay; as usual, once classes start I don't have much free time! Realistically,...
slim. the nukes in case you haven't been listening to the evening buzz are about to go off all over Korea, then Taiwan, then Isreal, Then USA. and adh and...
If a prime twin is a pair of two primes p and q which differ by 2. What is the number of all prime twins (p,q) such that p+q is a natural power of 2? Happy...
In a message dated 10/8/2006 8:09:48 AM Central Standard Time, ... Among the first 51 such pairs, up to (1607, 1609), only the first, (3, 5), qualifies. stevo ...
... This is the only case and be easily proved. Every prime is of the form 3n+1 or 3n+2. Consider prime p1 = 3n+1. p2 = 3n+1 + 2^k = 3n + 2^k+1 for k > 1 since...
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