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Calculating metabolism [closed]
I'm developing a calculator that calculates how much calories you burn per minute.
This formula is what I have so far:
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unit conversion doubt
Im a developer that likes maths, but dont have much experience,
I had constructed a graphic that animates a bar that grows on the X axis according to a value.
So, I have the values for the x ...
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In general, is it easier to solve problems that have random variables, or problems that are basically the same that don't [closed]
This question is asked because I don't understand how random variables will affect various math problems, and knowledgeable mathematicians would.
By easier, we mean less steps
If we make our own ...
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What is the underlying function?
I have some value pairs. They are inversely proportional. I want to have a formula to get the second value from the first value.
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How to design a weighted formula with multiple inputs?
Apologies if this is the completely wrong verbiage for this sort of thing... kinda new to this.
We're designing a social website, where users on the site have several statistics associated with them. ...
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Reduce the range of weighted sum
i am using this weighted sum
How to build a function that gives recent years higher weight?
but I am getting values in the range
1- 0.0000002
How can I reduce this range ? Make it something like ...
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How are these operations the same? How to convert a multiplication in a different form?
I am reading on a specific operation, how it should be done in order to avoid overflow during multiplication.
The operation is:
$$( A * \text{state} ) \% M;$$
This is susceptible to overflow.
The ...
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How to build a function that gives recent years higher weight?
I want to have a value for users between 0-1 , that shows how much they like movies of specific type depending on how many movies they have watched and movie type ( comedy , etc ). I have a data of ...
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Solving $4t+{2\over t-3}+{2\over3}=0$ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How would I rearrange this equation to make the subject $t$?
The scenario is as follows:
A sub-atomic particle is travelling in a straight line through a tubular ...
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11th grade level exponential growth problem?
A certain strain of bacteria that is growing on your kitchen counter
doubles every 5 minutes. Assuming you start with only one bacterium,
how many bacteria could be present at the end of 96 ...
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Von Mises width at half height
I'm fitting the following Von Mises type function to some data:
$(A/2\pi)e^{k\cos(\theta)}+C$ where A and k are positive.
I want to calculate the width at half height from the lowest point of the ...
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Question Based On Mathematical Modeling [Applied Functions]
An example of a calulus book reads:
A rectangular storage container with an open top has a volume of $10$ m .
The length of its base is twice its width. Material for the base costs $10$ per ...
