Some interestingfacts and figure on math See the link What is Googol? Estimate the wheat in last square of chess Rules of divisibility for a counting number N ...
Trying to understand how to model the natural movements of a pendulum in a programming language. Not sure where to start, I know that certain constants must be...
Mr Saloy i sgoing to invest at most $10,000 into Bond (X1) and Stock (X2). Assume that the expected return will be z = 500% X1+ 300% X2. By some reasons, there...
I see you made some progress on this since you previous posting. Many members here like to see some effort before helping people with there home work. Your...
This is just a comment rather than a specific answer to your question (sorry I can't be more helpful): I wasn't sure at first what would cause the pendulum...
... Stock ... X2. By ... (X2) ... numbers ... what is ... go to http://www.purplemath.com/modules/linprog.htm follow the example given here letting x1=x and...
... Some further thoughts to complement video_ranger's... I. First, decide on your idealizations: 1. Is your pendulum (a) Free to swing in two (non-colliner)...
... I D A Y ... On another board there's been a fairly long thread devoted to PI Day that people have been posting to today, celebrating. There's this one ...
... one ... The interesting thing is that if you measured the diameter of a bicycle wheel, then rolled out a circumference, you still wouldn't have any hard...
... one ... Unfortunately, there are no "simple" proofs of the irrationality of pi to show this guy. Even if there were, a lot of people still don't "buy" the...
... Day that people have been posting to today, celebrating. There's this one guy who thinks that 22/7 = pi, exactly. I've been trying to convince him...
... If he knew 355/113 he would probably say that was exact too. Draw a circle with diameter 7. Then measuring the circumference, one should get 21.9911 which...
In a message dated 3/15/2007 5:15:12 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Does he believe that all the reference books are wrong? The value of pi is discussed in a...
... Every CIty in the world has its "exclusive" suburbs - THE place to live. In Melbourne [capital City of the State of Victoria], the rich and fatuous have...
In a message dated 3/16/2007 12:17:58 AM Central Daylight Time, ... 3.141592654 > Savannah, Georgia http://www.brainyzip.com/zipcodes/31/31415.html ...
... While we are at it, Happy sqrt(10) day. Brahmagupta (India c 600 AD) estimated Pi = sqrt(10) Then on 3/10/06 we could have said Happy cube of pi day. I...
The actual author of the strange treatise from which this comes is unknown. There seems to have been an actual, and typically Pythagorean, attempt to state but...
Recently I was on holiday in beautiful Prague, Czech Republic. This question occured to me while waiting for the elevator on the eighth floor of the Pyramid...
... <cooperpuzzles@...> wrote: In reality of course, it will take many more stops as people will push in the most inconvenient order! Now I will go and have a...
Hi, The best road to solution for this type of problem is to try it with smaller numbers. For the case of 1 passenger, 1 capacity, the elevator takes 1 from ...
... with smaller ... takes 1 from ... track of ... do 3 ... Yes, I tried this with smaller numbers. I'm pretty sure of my answers up to 6 floors. Maybe you can...
One way is to first aggregate everyone on the same floor. I don't know whether this is the best way but since you mentioned 30, it does seem to come out as 30...
So I count 32 stops this way. My best so far has been 35 stops. Can we tinker with this method to improve it or have you found the limit? John ... 30, ... nine...
The other few ideas/algorithms I considered seemed to be worse than this simple method. It wouldn't be surprising if there were some way to tinker with it to...
With a little modification I can knock 4 stops from your method. In phase (2) while you're going from floor 2 to floors 3 through 9, take whoever is already on...
I know many mathematic lovers, like myself, like physics too. If there are any physicists in this list, I'd like to ask a question. We all know the effects of...
... there are ... know the ... attraction and ... observed and ... Accoring to Einstein, there is no need for, or perhaps no such thing as, a gravitational...
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