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#26 Help Me ! » question about wording in my book » 2010-06-24 22:26:31

Dragonshade
Replies: 3

Got some problems with my textbook's wording

What does it mean by "For all but finitely many"? is there an equivalent way to word it?

What does it mean by adjoined? Rudin didn't explain this term in his book

Thanks in advance : )

#27 Re: Help Me ! » one group problem » 2010-02-07 17:55:06

sorry for the late reply,  what I dont understand is that it seems to be a group of under module something but it doesnt say anything

hmm that's an interesting proposition, first I doubted it because I overlooked the requirement that G is a group itself

#28 Help Me ! » one group problem » 2010-02-03 18:10:22

Dragonshade
Replies: 3



somehow I feel that this problem's information is very insuffient, but I guess any set containing p+q can be eliminated.












the answer is e.

#30 Re: Help Me ! » just came up with a problem » 2009-11-18 15:20:49

Yea, I agree that I have to restrict it, so that I have to C&P the entire thing
then Mathsyperson's solution should be the best
since C&P a portion of it, doesnt sound possible when the number is huge 


#31 Re: Help Me ! » just came up with a problem » 2009-11-18 11:52:46

Looks like you are using 1, as the base
I put n=1 into my formula's, then I got
2^13 = 8192,
number = 2+13*2+2=30

oh yeah, I should have made it clear, that you could paste any portion of the As, if not, its hard to make it to 10000 precisely
sorry about that
So its like, when you pass 5000, you could reach 10000 in one copy and paste....
but wait, that doesnt sound really realistic...I think your solution might be the best

#32 Help Me ! » just came up with a problem » 2009-11-18 09:59:14

Dragonshade
Replies: 7

I came up with this when I was playing games on my comp

It goes like this: What is the least number of operations it takes to type 10000 letters A. (You have two operations, just by pressing "A" , or copy&Paste.  Pressing "A" counts as 1 operation,  Copy and Paste counts as 2)

I don't know if this can be generalized, I think the solution would be different for large number opposed to the small number of A

I think the least number of operation, goes like, 
First type

number of  As,
then keep copying and pasting the whole thing , r times until it gets the closest it can get to the total number of A

Use letter e to denote the remainder

The number of operations would be

thats as far as I can get : (

#33 Help Me ! » Linear algebra » 2009-08-18 05:54:29

Dragonshade
Replies: 2

How to prove that


Where
(cof is cofactor)

my book said it follows from 

and

I think it might just be algebra, but still,

#34 Re: Help Me ! » What is this notation » 2009-08-12 02:57:23

hey, I just found it. Its scalar tripple product [A,B,C] = A dot (B cross C). Ah, learned it before but didnt use that notation much, forgot hahah
thanks anyway : )

#35 Help Me ! » What is this notation » 2009-08-11 13:18:09

Dragonshade
Replies: 3

I read this in one of my book

Let gamma be a curve of class larger than 2, with arc length s as parameter.......

the equation of the osulating plane is

What is this notation  with the brackets , [ ...., ....., ....]=0 ? Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks in advance

#36 Re: Help Me ! » A question about the matrix convention » 2009-07-15 14:01:21

Ricky wrote:

I corrected a typo in my last line, the last term was x_j and it is now x_n.

This is not a definition, it's just using the standard definition of matrix multiplication on the vector (0, ..., 1, ..., 0).

So it could have been row(j) elements, but they are equivalent?

No, whenever doing matrix multiplication (i.e. applying a linear transformation), vectors are always column vectors.

oh, ok. Got it. later I saw the author used put the eigen vectors in columns instead of rows.  Thanks : )

#37 Re: Help Me ! » A question about the matrix convention » 2009-07-14 20:18:49

So this is just a definition. He wrote that vector in term of basis x_i with corresponding column(j) elements. So it could have been row(j) elements, but they are equivalent?

#38 Re: Help Me ! » A question about the matrix convention » 2009-07-14 17:03:06

Ricky wrote:

What book?

Mathematics of Classical and Quantum physics by Fredrick W.Byron, Jr.  and Robert W.Fuller

Oh, I think I know what's going on, he defines


but still wanna know why

#39 Help Me ! » A question about the matrix convention » 2009-07-13 19:07:55

Dragonshade
Replies: 6

(Summation is assumed)
I think its normally this


but my book defines it as

I found it weird it doesnt look consistent, if the first one is a matrix times a column vector, then the second one is a transpose matrix times a row vector?

#40 Re: Help Me ! » Prove this » 2009-02-17 18:34:08

ok, here's my version of proof

sorry if I made any mistakes

#41 Help Me ! » surface area of sphere » 2009-02-17 17:55:21

Dragonshade
Replies: 0

I was trying to find the surface element of a sphere with radius R

Then I just did a jacobian transformation

and I dont think I got the correct result : (
Anyone know why? Thanks in advance

#42 Re: Help Me ! » This will probably be really easy.. [Solving Equations with Brackets] » 2008-11-25 07:40:44

1-2(2x+1)=1-(x-1)
1-(2*2x+2*1)=1-x+1
1-(4x+2)=(1+1)-x
1-4x-2=2-x
(1-2)-4x=2-x
-1-4x=2-x
(-1-2)=(4x-x)
-3=3x
x=-1

#43 Re: Help Me ! » First Reversing The Order of Integration » 2008-11-25 07:35:38

so the region would be   y^2<x<4 , 0<y<2, graph it and express the region in different way
then you get,  0<x<4,  0<y< square root (x) , then u go on and reverse the order
*can somebody check if I did it correctly smile *

#44 Re: Help Me ! » help me simplify » 2008-11-25 06:18:55

thats what I get, but I dont know lol

#45 Re: Help Me ! » difficult » 2008-11-15 16:38:25

mathsyperson wrote:

But it becomes much trickier if you follow the commonly used rule that different letters must have different numbers.

There are 10 different letters in the equation, so all 10 digits are used.
That's all I have so far. smile

Oh yeah, didnt see that

R  E  A D
T  H  I  S
P  A  G E

Ok then, since all 10 digits are used

every addition: (k_1,k,k_2 = 0 or 1)

D+S =10k+E
A+I+k =10K_1+G
E+H+K_1= 10k_2 + A
R+T+k_2=P
(like, 6+7=10+3, so the k would be 1 here)

(k,k1,k2)= (0,0,0), (0,1,1,),(1,1,1)....... 2x2x2=8 pairs......

thats all I got so far, wait...

and E appear in PAGE, and READ, so is A
therefore, D+S >10,  E+H >10 , then k=1, k_2=1
so
D+S =10+E
A+I+1 =10K_1+G
E+H+K_1= 10 + A
R+T+1=P

I think its much easier from here on

#46 Re: Help Me ! » difficult » 2008-11-15 10:57:27

its not that hard, cuz only A and E repeat themselve, so , give random values to A and E and solve for others

#47 Re: Dark Discussions at Cafe Infinity » Debate #001: Is math a science? » 2008-11-14 18:01:07

To me, Math is not science
Science is the study of this world
but you CANT find math in the world ,  cant find a matter called "2"
It only exists in the world conceptual in our brains
leads to , does consciousness , thoughts count as substance?
Math is like coming from some other world only connects with our consciousness?

#48 Re: Help Me ! » A quick question about series » 2008-11-12 16:52:37

so  to prove


is divergent

It's not valid to split it to


since the latter part diverges

so the only way to do it is

so it diverages

#50 Re: Help Me ! » Help me! » 2008-11-11 20:15:28

Assuming there's no energy loss due to friction?
I think the work by father = the potential energy

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