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#377 Re: Introductions » Nehushtan » 2013-10-06 02:31:58

That’s why I changed my avatar – to scare more people! lol

#378 Re: Introductions » Nehushtan » 2013-10-06 02:16:14

Do you like my new avatar? I’m no longer a fierce-looking snake but a cute little teddy bear. big_smile

#379 Re: Help Me ! » Logical Equivalence and Logical Implication » 2013-09-14 06:23:41

atran wrote:

Does that mean the two statements are also semantically equivalent?

Consider these two statements:

• I am married and I am happy.
• I am married but I am happy.

They are logically equivalent. Are they semantically equivalent as well?

#380 Re: Puzzles and Games » Alarming » 2013-09-13 01:31:53

phrontister wrote:

How can I get the alarm to sound at 10pm each day?

#382 Re: Puzzles and Games » Metamorphosis » 2013-09-07 08:39:40

RAIN
CAIN
CHIN
CHIP
CLIP
SLIP
SLOP
CLOP
COOP
COOL
COIL
FOIL
FAIL
FALL
FELL


show → your → work

#383 Re: Jokes » Good Jokes » 2013-08-27 20:30:09

Q: What was there before the Big Bang?
A: No matter.


Q: Heard about the guy who didn’t believe in electricity until he touched the + terminal of a high-voltage DC source?
A: He was positively shocked.

#384 Re: Puzzles and Games » Easy puzzle challenge » 2013-08-25 19:30:26

The problem was meant to be easy – in other words, use AM–GM rather than calculus:


Next problem (more challenging this time):

#385 Re: Maths Is Fun - Suggestions and Comments » Absolutely Christmas Crackers Puzzle » 2013-08-24 09:25:58

SPACKlick wrote:

40 crackers will be missing 1 item and 14 will be missing 2?

Correction: 11 will be missing exactly two items.

#389 Re: Help Me ! » Convergence in topological space » 2013-07-07 11:52:06

Any constant sequence is convergent. The proof is just trivial.

#390 Re: Puzzles and Games » Metamorphosis » 2013-06-06 00:21:04

DRAW
DREW
CREW
CROW
PROW
PROP
POOP
POOR
POUR
YOUR
DOUR
DOER
DEER
SEER
SEAR
SEAL
SELL
SELF


PLAY → FOOT → BALL

#392 Re: Help Me ! » group » 2013-06-01 09:58:54

under component-wise addition modulo n. There are infinitely many elements but each element has order at most n.

#393 Re: Help Me ! » Number Theory Problems » 2013-05-17 02:34:43

It is easily checked that 677 is prime.


PS: In general:

In the above problem:

#394 Re: Maths Is Fun - Suggestions and Comments » plus signs in Latex » 2013-05-03 22:45:10

I see, so it’s \' rather than just ' now? Thanks. smile

#396 Re: Maths Is Fun - Suggestions and Comments » plus signs in Latex » 2013-05-03 11:42:35

LaTeX is not parsing the character ' at the moment. neutral

f(x) = x^2 :

f'(x) = 2x :

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