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[edit] August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 1

1. Card trick
2. Problem solving
3. Origin of the Arithmetic Mean
4. Travelling salesman problem
5. Simple Math

[edit] August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 2

1. Problem Solving 2
2. Unioted States Businesses Statistics
3. most popular stolen car model and year

[edit] August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 3

1. Permutations
2. Does commutativity imply associativity?

[edit] August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 4

1. Definition of orientable manifolds
2. Overlaid maps

[edit] August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 5

1. Calculating the Difference Between Two Dates
2. Convergence of a Taylor series
3. Prove or disprove
4. Problem Solving 3

[edit] August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 6

1. What is the addition equivalent of a factorial?
2. 2^100
3. How lawyers make decisions?

[edit] August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 7

1. Integral help
2. dice odds question
3. max sum problem

[edit] August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 8

1. Spanish wanted
2. ODEs -- Existence of multiple solutions
3. Lambert W

[edit] August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 9

1. Dividing by Zero
2. Graphical representations of complex functions.

[edit] August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 10

1. Superannuation Question
2. Conceptualizing irrational numbers
3. The future cannot change the past
4. Probability vector
5. Big E?
6. Greedy algorithms and making change
7. greedy algorithm predicting stock price
8. Doubly stochastic matrix - n

[edit] August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 11

1. Linear model - Stock Exchange Prediction
2. non-linear mapping
3. Movie Prediction Systems
4. havent done calculus in like a year
5. Principal components analysis

[edit] August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 12

1. Wheel Theory
2. Linear Transformation Problems
3. Vector space
4. Probability?
5. Null space and Kernel (algebra)
6. Leray-Schauder indices
7. Coercive mapping
8. Dimensions of operators
9. Alternating symbol

[edit] August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 13

1. Inverse function
2. Carrying White Man's Burden
3. Nodal properties in Bifurcation theory
4. For the Love of MATH?
5. Baseball probability

[edit] August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 14

1. Entangled slinky — mathematical explanation?
2. 19
3. Where can you learn math online?
4. Pell's equation

[edit] August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 15

1. 7th grade math
2. The Height of the Curve of Water
3. Greens Theorem

[edit] August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 16

1. baseball and Math
2. Standard deviation
3. Trigonometry & Complex Numbers
4. Body fat calculation

[edit] August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 17

1. Summation
2. Over the reals
3. What are the chances...?!
4. Dice game
5. What is the name for the bottle or shape without an opening?
6. Stability of a solution

[edit] August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 19

1. Null day (not)

[edit] August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 20

1. Null day (not)
2. 36 an achilles number
3. Math questions re child’s game “boxes” or “houses”
4. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Miscellaneous#6_shapes_puzzle
5. Constructing polytope from Schläfli symbols
6. Simplification of integral
7. What area of mathematics do I study now?

[edit] August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 21

1. Building Area
2. Maths Joke
3. Multiplicative integration
4. binomial(?) expansion
5. boat crossing in constant current
6. World Mall

[edit] August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 22

1. Probability Tree App
2. Euler line
3. Online Percent Gain Calculator
4. Simple probability question
5. Confused About Probability
6. Infinity

[edit] August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 23

1. Dividing by fractions
2. Coordinates shown in science-fiction shows
3. Hilbert Curve
4. Statistical representative
5. Exponential function

[edit] August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 24

1. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 24#|]]
2. Grid Coloring
3. Continuity of solution space
4. WP:RD/MA

[edit] August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 25

1. Ideas for representing higher dimensional spaces
2. Critical point theory
3. Number systems
4. palindromic generation
5. Tangency
6. Marking a quiz
7. Class Membership

[edit] August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 26

1. World Mall - Yet again
2. Decimals
3. integral/antiderivatives..

[edit] August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 27

1. When negative is higher than positive
2. [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 27#Pi is wrong|Pi is wrong]]
3. what is going on with my integral of 1/x
4. Matlab equivalent
5. imperial/metric conversion

[edit] August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 28

1. numbers odds/fund raising raffle
2. More Confusion About Infinity
3. Can someone help me understand this integral
4. Surface area of a drawn circle

[edit] August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 29

1. Arithmetic Precision, Significant Figures - Values that round to 10
2. Google Calculator bug?
3. Distributing points on a sphere
4. Determinant sign
5. name of solid

[edit] August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 30

1. Right triangle
2. Gradient

[edit] August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2007 August 31

1. Exterior algebra as Hopf algebra
2. What field of Math?
3. Please help me with "Newton Forward Interpolation"