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#376 2012-04-19 03:30:44

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Re: Series

Okay! Thanks.


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#377 2012-04-19 04:02:06

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Re: Series

Hi;

I am afraid that I am unable to verify your answer. You will have to wait for gAr.


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#378 2012-04-19 04:03:07

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Re: Series

Ok. But we are talking about my answer to #15?


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#379 2012-04-19 04:08:12

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Re: Series

It is not your answer but the series itself.


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#380 2012-04-19 04:09:30

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Re: Series

What is wrong whit the series?


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#381 2012-04-19 04:13:37

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Re: Series

When x = 1 + (1 /4 ) it is not true. Also for other values too. That does not mean there is something wrong with it as you say. It just means I am not able to verify it.


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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#382 2012-04-19 04:16:27

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Re: Series

How did you check?


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#383 2012-04-19 04:17:23

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Re: Series

Numerically, which could be biting me. But that is what I am getting right now.


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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#384 2012-04-19 04:19:41

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Can you show me what you have done?


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#385 2012-04-19 04:27:35

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For a sum of 10000 terms;

x=N[1+1/4,20];

FullSimplify[Sum[(-1)^k Binomial[2k,k]*(Cos[2k+1]x)/2^(2k),{k,0,10000}]-Cos[x/2]/Sqrt[2Cos[x]]]//N

Answer should be getting close to 0, but it does not. When I do 20000 the answer goes up instead of down!


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#386 2012-04-19 04:36:08

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I got 0.0284151 and 0.029486 for those two.I will try going larger.


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#387 2012-04-19 04:37:38

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Re: Series

As you approach infinity it should be going to 0. But it does not.


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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#388 2012-04-19 04:47:44

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I don't know. M is slow and it won't calculate anymore. hmm


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#389 2012-04-19 04:50:50

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Re: Series

Hi;

Could just be round off error. I got it to work for one value so just submit it to gAr and see if he likes it.

I am going to go shopping see you later.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#390 2012-04-19 04:51:39

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Re: Series

Ok,see you later.


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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#391 2012-04-20 10:53:09

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bobbym wrote:

Sometimes! The ones that you solve in a day or two are fun. But there are those that last for years. Nothing you try works, I have a number of those.

Could you tell me one of them,bobbym?


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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#392 2012-04-20 10:56:52

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Re: Series

This is the easiest one:

Evaluate the above integral to as many digits as you can. Find a good way to do so.


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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#393 2012-04-20 11:01:33

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Re: Series

What did you try?


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#394 2012-04-20 11:04:53

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Everything I know of course and a few more things. I bounced it around on forums and got a lot of punk answers. Two people did show me something, one was a certain Robert MIller, the other I do not remember. Currently even with a computer and the big boy on the block, I can get only around 100 digits or so easily.


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#395 2012-04-20 11:06:44

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Re: Series

What did they show you?

And what other problem do you have?


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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#396 2012-04-20 11:09:37

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Many others but most of them I cannot recall offhand any longer. I outlined 6 or 7 for gAr when we were talking about this. Oh, here is another:

What is the front digit?


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#397 2012-04-20 11:11:07

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Re: Series

How,in the world,would you find the first diigit???

Where do you get these problems?


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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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#398 2012-04-20 11:14:43

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Re: Series

There are several approaches to get the front digit.

Where do I get the problems from? You are familiar with Christian Goldbach?


In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.

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#399 2012-04-20 11:19:20

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Re: Series

Tell me one of the easier approaches.

Who is that guy?


“Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

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#400 2012-04-20 11:20:57

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Oooh,Goldbach Theorem Goldbach. Didn't know his first name was Christian.

And look at the last post on the last page,jst in case you miss it.

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