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May
17
comment Sum of square root of primes
One can denote the floor function at $x$ by $\lfloor x\rfloor$, coded as \lfloor x\rfloor. That seems to prevail today. I suspect the $[x]$ notation was formerly completely standard simply because typesetters didn't have little pieces of steel in a shape appropriate for anything like the notation usually favored now.
May
17
revised Sum of square root of primes
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May
17
revised if $\mathbf x$ is sampled randomly from a hypercube on $R^n$, what is the probability density for $|\mathbf x| = d$
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May
17
comment if $\mathbf x$ is sampled randomly from a hypercube on $R^n$, what is the probability density for $|\mathbf x| = d$
Oh. OK, my answer is incomplete. Maybe I'll add more later.
May
17
answered if $\mathbf x$ is sampled randomly from a hypercube on $R^n$, what is the probability density for $|\mathbf x| = d$
May
17
answered Limit of $\lim_{x \to 0}\left (x\cdot \sin\left(\dfrac{1}{x}\right)\right)$ is $0$ or $1$?
May
17
revised Working with subsets, as opposed to elements.
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May
17
comment Find the angle between the 2 points (50.573,-210.265) and (117.833,-80.550)
One thing that should hit you right between the eyes is that the sum of these two numbers is eactly $90^\circ$. ${}\qquad{}$
May
17
revised Minimizing Mean Squared Error for Exponential Function
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May
17
revised Minimizing Mean Squared Error for Exponential Function
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May
17
revised System of Differential Equations proof question
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May
16
revised Residue fields of gaussian primes
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May
16
comment An explanation on variances
@CalvinLin : In $\TeX$ you can write $1\times1$ instead of $1X1$. There's no need to use the letter $X$ like that. In a way, that's the main point of $\TeX$.
May
16
comment An explanation on variances
They should be column vectors so that the variance and covariance are matrices. That is standard usage.
May
16
revised Proving $\ker(TT^* + T^*T) = \ker(T)\setminus \ker(T^*)$
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May
16
revised Fourier Transform of $(\operatorname{sinc}(x))^2\cdot \exp(-ax^2)$
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May
16
comment Which trigonometric identities involve trigonometric functions?
@Daved : Hello. At first glance that looks to me like something that doesn't depend on the fact that the circle is parametrized by arc length rather than in some other way.
May
16
comment A matrix w/integer eigenvalues and trigonometric identity
The ways in which people use TeX on this site are sometimes quite baffling. Daved: Why use a "\displaystyle" in your piecewise definition of $\Lambda_{k\ell}$ instead of an actual display, and why use the \mbox{} construction in "cases" instead of alignment tabs? (I altered both and did some other TeX improvements.)
May
16
revised A matrix w/integer eigenvalues and trigonometric identity
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May
16
comment Do lay persons really believe that all of mathematics is known?
People in the field of math education might have an interest in actually doing the work to conduct a good survey and in analyzing the results, but they won't know what questions to ask without a lot of really good input from mathematicians. This has to be a collaboration.