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#1 2016-12-19 14:35:19
Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
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#2 2016-12-19 14:37:11
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Those are the 100 digit problems posed a few years ago.
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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#3 2016-12-19 14:40:50
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Can you solve them all?
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#4 2016-12-19 14:41:47
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
You are joking of course?!???!!!!!!
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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#5 2016-12-19 14:46:09
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Here are some more: http://www.siam.org/journals/problems/d … 04-003.pdf
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#6 2016-12-19 14:48:32
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Folkmar, unless I am mistaken was on one of the teams that got all ten right.
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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#7 2016-12-26 16:00:35
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Steven created a problem inspired by one of those. It is not very hard, though.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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#8 2016-12-26 17:56:34
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
You solved 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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#9 2016-12-26 18:47:12
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Yes.
The person below did not expect that
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#10 2016-12-26 18:51:13
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
I was expecting that answer.
Dost thou consider thyself wise in the ways of programming? Art ye ready for a challenge that hath stumped the mightiest?
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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#11 2016-12-26 19:49:36
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Good. Double the pride, double the fall.
No, I do not consider myself wise, because of the above principle. But I will look at your problem and try it.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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#12 2016-12-26 19:56:33
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
If thou art diligent and wise, O stranger, compute the number of cattle of the
Sun, who once upon a time grazed on the fields of the Thrinacian isle of Sicily,
divided into four herds of different colours, one milk white, another a glossy black,
a third yellow and the last dappled. In each herd were bulls, mighty in number
according to these proportions: Understand, stranger, that the white bulls were
equal to a half and a third of the black together with the whole of the yellow,
while the black were equal to the fourth part of the dappled and a fifth, together
with, once more, the whole of the yellow. Observe further that the remaining
bulls, the dappled, were equal to a sixth part of the white and a seventh, together
with all of the yellow
That problem was supposedly posed by a god, mine is somewhat easier.
There are 3 kegs of water. The first keg has 1 liter, the second keg has 2 liters and the third keg has 3 liters of water in it. Each day our traveller picks one keg at random with each keg having the same chance of being picked and takes and drinks one liter of water from it. When he empties a keg he throws it away. When he is left with one keg he records the amount of water in it. What is the expected amount of water remaining in that last keg?
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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#13 2016-12-27 00:49:58
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
The answer is (125/72) according to RIES and I have verified that in two ways.
Using a simulation:
from random import choice
def simulate(kegs):
while len(kegs) > 1:
n = choice(range(len(kegs)))
kegs[n] -= 1;
if kegs[n] == 0:
del kegs[n]
return kegs[0]
ans = sum((simulate([1,2,3]) for i in range(1000000)))/1000000and actually evaluating the probability tree:
import Data.List
type Keg = Float -- Capacity Water
type State = [Keg]
rots :: [a] -> [[a]]
rots xs = init (zipWith (++) (tails xs) (inits xs))
calculate :: State -> Float
calculate kegs = go 0.0 1.0 kegs
where
go :: Float -> Float -> State -> Float
go e p [w] = e + p*w
go e p kegs = foldr (\st e' -> go e' p' st) e newStates
where
newStates = [ f s | s <- (rots kegs) ]
f (1.0:ks) = ks
f (w:ks) = (w-1):ks
p' = p/(fromIntegral $ length newStates)
ans = calculate [1,2,3]Last edited by Agnishom (2016-12-27 01:07:50)
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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#14 2016-12-27 06:55:21
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
You do not need RIES to rationalize a fp but very good, you solved the problem.
How high can your tree go? Can you do 2 to 10 kegs? A ten keg problem would be 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 liters per bottle.
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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#15 2016-12-27 13:08:09
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
What is an fp?
I can only do upto 4 with the tree program. It grows rapidly
Last edited by Agnishom (2016-12-27 13:08:34)
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
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#16 2016-12-27 13:23:40
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Stands for floating point.
What was your answer for 4 then?
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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#17 2016-12-27 13:35:02
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
1.9035132137345392
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#18 2016-12-27 13:39:04
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Your tree could not get an exact answer?
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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#19 2016-12-27 13:53:22
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Post #17 is what I have.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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#20 2016-12-27 13:56:57
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
Okay, I have the exact answer already.
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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#21 2016-12-27 13:57:53
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
How do you get it?
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'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
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#22 2016-12-27 13:59:22
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
By copy and paste.
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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#23 2016-12-27 14:09:41
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
What is that again?
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#24 2016-12-27 14:14:00
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Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
I copied and pasted.
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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#25 2016-12-27 14:45:15
Re: Ten Cool Experimental Mathematics Problems
In other words, you have more digits than I do.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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