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#51 2012-06-26 04:28:31
- bobbym
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
That you would need an infinite number of mathematical methods to solve an infinite number of mathematical problems. This spells doom for general methods of solving combinatoric problems.
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#52 2012-06-26 04:31:21
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Wait, here are infinitely many quadratic equations and the quadratic formula for the root of those works for each and every one.
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#53 2012-06-26 04:33:04
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Combinatorics is wider than that. Generally there can be no single way to solve all Diophantine equations for instance.
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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#54 2012-06-26 04:55:58
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
I was just giving a counter example.
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#55 2012-06-26 05:02:10
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
In my experience I have found some problems that I could not solve using gf's. But the actual answer whether they can not be solved by them I do not know.
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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#56 2012-06-26 05:04:30
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Can you give me one?
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#57 2012-06-26 05:12:51
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Any one where I did not use one. Take the juantheron problem.
Have to do some chores see you in a bit.
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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#58 2012-06-26 05:20:47
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Ok, see you.
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#59 2012-06-26 16:52:35
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
There is also the bowlers problem. It does require gf's but they are not sufficient.
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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#60 2012-06-27 00:11:28
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Ok.
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#61 2012-06-27 01:47:48
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Hi;
Or maybe the cootie problem...
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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
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#62 2012-06-27 01:48:24
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
Cootie?
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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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#63 2012-06-27 01:50:01
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Yes, a great problem that no one knows the answer to let alone how to do it.
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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#64 2012-06-27 01:52:05
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
What is the problem?
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#65 2012-06-27 01:53:59
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
I would have to look it up and anyway I might be posting an answer to it right here.
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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#66 2012-06-27 02:27:47
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
What?
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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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#67 2012-06-27 02:29:01
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Re: Combinations and Permutations
The cootie problem.
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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