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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 1
Ackermann vs. tetration
Unbounded utility
Root at top of tree?
Wireframe cube result
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 2
Integral of graph, area = infinite, volume = finite?
calculator for e
Hyperbola and its Tangent Line
Rearranging for x
Group of a given order
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 3
Trapezoid
Ratio Proportion Problem
Last two digits of a given index
Standard Error of Products
Basis of K(x)
Is PlanetMath a valid source?
Mathematical symbols like < and > but with curved lines
a*x=b (mod N)
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 4
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A question in trivialogy.
The finite fields are completely known
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 5
How can you tell when you have correct digits of pi in equations with limits?
statistical significance and Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2008/Results
The Fabulous number i
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 6
Inequality
simple productivity calculation
half functions
Large Counterexamples and Proof by Induction
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 7
Measure Theory
Finding root-mean-square error for various methods
Topology question
Asking the gods of science for some help.
How many groups are there of a particular order?
Graph Sketching
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 8
Infinite Box
Elliptic Curve Cryptography Problem...
Mallows' Cp
Tax question
Well-orderings of an aleph-1 set
Mapping circle to heart shape curve and cardioid
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 9
6th grade math
Proof
Small but not finite fields
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 10
Reciprocal of a graph
Trigonometric identities
Constructing a square around a Reuleaux triangle
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 11
Functions
Integration problem
Reuleaux triangle
Functions
What is a "cz" a unit of?
Reciprocal of a distance time graph
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 11
Functions
Integration problem
Reuleaux triangle
Functions
What is a "cz" a unit of?
Reciprocal of a distance time graph
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 12
Smallest power with a given property
Solution sought
π = –i log(–1) ?
Mathematics Question
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 13
Is PlanetMath a valid source?
Continued fraction
Geometric shapes
Measure Theory questions
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 14
Decidability of God
Partial differencial equation
Fixed Points
Closures and cluster points
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 15
Integral question
A property of the adjugate
Problem
Function of best fit for these couples; and a general question
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 16
Category Theory question from Mac Lane's book
How many subtractions do you need to obtain number 32, using the numbers 1, 5, 6, 7 and 9?
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 17
Number of subsets of size k
REVISITED: How many subtractions do you need to obtain number 32, using the numbers 1, 5, 6, 7 and 9?
Rational inequalities
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 18
Simple probability
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 19
Probability regularisation
Boubaker polynomials
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 20
Boubaker polynomials (2)
List of exact values of trig functions
On/Off Notation
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 21
Feynman Restaurant Problem
Socks in drawer problem
Boubaker polynomials (3): Mr. Boubaker, please come and give your personal definition
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 22
What is the factorial of a fraction and a fractionth triangular number?
Refs for group theory: realizability as derived or frattini subgroup
Probability
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 23
1 + 1 = 0?
Latex with WinShell, regular expressions
Determinants of a Non-Square Matrix!!!
Angles of points on surface of sphere
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 24
Derivation details
Möbius strip
Annuity
Stirling's approximation and asymptotics
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 26
inequality involving a sequence
Relation between trigonometric functions and exponential / multiplicative reciprocal functions
acromegly
maths quiz
maths quiz
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 27
Square numbers
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 28
math question
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 29
Jet interpolation, or what?
MY DOUBTS
Summing 1's and 2's
acromagaly chances
on analytical geometry
inverting pixels with convolution matrix
Composition of polynomials is associative
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 30
Factorization
Hypersudoku question
Polynomial
Question concerning two integrals
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[[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 30#Extension of Σn<.2Fsup>i=a<.2Fsub>f(x) and Πn<.2Fsup>i=a<.2Fsub>f(x) for n≠xINT1 or n≠an integer|Extension of Σn i=a f(x) and Πn i=a f(x) for n≠xINT1 or n≠an integer]]
Collatz conjecture
Triangle wave
Trigonomic approximation revisited
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 31
Proof that a function from the rationals to dyadic rationals is a bijection
Uncountability of x S.T. f(x)=0
[[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2008 December 31#S3<.2Fsup> vs P3<.2Fsup>|S3 vs P3 ]]