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General Discussion => Other Discussions => Math and Science => Topic started by: Freyaday on April 15, 2011, 04:35:47 pm

Title: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 15, 2011, 04:35:47 pm
Got some math troubles? Post 'em here and I'll see what I can do.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Munchor on April 15, 2011, 04:36:34 pm
Got some math troubles? Post 'em here and I'll see what I can do.

I actually think it'd better if for each trouble we'd create a new topic (as we've been doing so far), but I don't know about what others think.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 15, 2011, 04:37:19 pm
This is for little things.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: ZippyDee on April 15, 2011, 04:37:44 pm
I think Freyaday is just finding somewhere else to post other than Spam :P
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 15, 2011, 04:38:30 pm
That too.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Munchor on April 15, 2011, 04:38:38 pm
I think Freyaday is just finding somewhere else to post other than Spam :P

I just hope this doens't end like Ashbad's OOP Help topic where nobody eventually asked for help.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 17, 2011, 12:34:14 am
Explain why an + bn = cn where a, b, c, and n ∈ ℤ implies n ≤ 2.

Any simple explanations for that?
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 12:47:13 am
Well, It'd help if you'd spell out the symbol you're using, because then I'd know what's being talked about.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 17, 2011, 12:48:18 am
∈ is set membership, ℤ is set of all integers.

Basically, explain Fermat's last theorem in one post ;D
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 12:54:40 am
I thought I recognized that! Also, that's not something simple. Next!
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Deep Toaster on April 17, 2011, 12:55:48 am
Never said it had to be simple :P

Oh well. Still nobody's given me a decent explanation yet.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 01:06:20 am
Well, I just proved cogito ergo sum, so give me a bit.
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: willrandship on April 17, 2011, 01:11:01 am
Give me an F(x) style solution to [a]*=[c] where c is a known integer, but neither a nor b are known.

by f(x) I mean
f(x) = x*sin(x)+5

edit: lol at the bbcodes :P
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 01:17:08 am
[nocode][nocode]a=c/b[/nocode][/nocode]
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: willrandship on April 17, 2011, 01:20:19 am
you forgot the [] brackets mean int()
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 01:32:02 am
[] is not the notation for the floor function. They're just brackets.
|_b_|/c=|_a_|<=a<=|-a-|
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: willrandship on April 17, 2011, 01:35:11 am
Square brackets are the de-facto way of typing floor functions, IIRC, because I don't have a reverse-L key :P

But anyways, solve int(a)*int(b)=a known integer

The hard part is that there is no inverse int( function :P
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 01:39:48 am
(int(b)=1 and int(a)=a) or a=0
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: willrandship on April 17, 2011, 01:46:10 am
that's not all solutions though......:(

And a=0 doesn't work, unless c is 0, which it isn't :P
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 01:48:48 am
It is for
int(b)int(a)=a
which is what you posted, innit?
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: willrandship on April 17, 2011, 01:50:29 am
no, int(b)int(a)=c.

Oh, I see, by "a known integer" I meant int(c) but that you know c :P sorry.

Here's a hex number to start you off. It's easy because there's only 2 sets of results!

0xc3b3a7015c04299ff3a25f104e2285c1ec2d55471e6208959d0f6981b2fa2c6d3e316f9364d5eb5c7789e142b75bfaf402e7e02fac0cb09f6419db1f44679f8bbcca142f1d312feb095708ef175a4ef80271321e7240f0d854c90a74fc59209cdf80aa8f85ae3b948a3ce55c69cd050098d5a79aebbc241cc642b106b1af2cb7
Title: Re: General Math help
Post by: Freyaday on April 17, 2011, 02:06:41 am
If you want to get rid of the floors, that'll involve inequalities, which I don't think you're looking for. If you don't mind having floors, then it's {int(a)=c/int(b) c|int(b)