Posts with keyword 'maths'

 
"Sylar and Sylow"
  Posted by Crispy on Wednesday, September 26, 2007 11:43PM
I'm currently using (under duress) the Sylow theorems to prove that there are only four groups of order 30. I'd much …
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"Truth and bash scripting"
  Posted by Crispy on Sunday, September 09, 2007 12:35AM
(Aside: I'm still looking for opinions on my previous post.) As programmers, we are used to the concept that non-zero …
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"Pi is exactly 3! (Now with proof.)"
  Posted by Crispy on Friday, October 06, 2006 06:30PM
Bow before my mathematical genius! …
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"Fun fact of the day"
  Posted by Crispy on Friday, May 05, 2006 10:50PM
Did you know that -asinh(4/ (5*abs(x)))/4 = 1/ 8*(ln(abs(sqrt(25*x^ 2+16)-4)))-1/ 8*( ln(abs(sqrt(25*x^2+ 16)+4))) for all …
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"Intuitive. Right."
  Posted by Crispy on Wednesday, April 19, 2006 02:33AM
Message no. 634 Author: [name removed] Date: Monday, April 17, 2006 12:13pm It's intuitively clear that the function …
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