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May 1 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 1

  1. The closeness of the hyperreals
  2. (Un)folded paper pattern
  3. What fraction of moonlight is at night?
  4. The Polylogarithm and Palindromic polynomials

May 4 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 4

  1. Explicit equations for these three sequences

May 5 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 5

  1. Rolling all 6 numbers

May 6 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 6

  1. Summing an infinite series?

May 7 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 7

  1. Why does Pi appear in Stirling's approximation and Gaussian integrals ?

May 8 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 8

  1. Four scatter plots with same mean, standard deviation and other equalities

May 9 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 9

  1. quick math help
  2. Random walk collision
  3. Solving harmonic sin waves
  4. What does this example mean?
  5. The proof of the splitting lemma
  6. Puzzling trig problems

May 10 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 10

  1. Combinatorics

May 11 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 11

  1. Ramanujan's Pi Formula
  2. use of summation in fractions

May 13 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 13

  1. The Number Between 0 and 1 That Doesn't Exist
  2. Knight moves on an infinite board.
  3. chord question

May 14 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 14

  1. Need suggestions for a math topic
  2. Shortest paths between 3d co-ordinates

May 15 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 15

  1. Dijkstra's algorithm
  2. Decomposing a simply-connected space
  3. Expected value convergence question

May 16 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 16

  1. Magic square type Combinatorics Problem

May 17 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 17

  1. Hyper-Exponential Function

May 18 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 18

  1. Most efficient way to place rooms in a compound whilst following certain criteria
  2. Rational sine
  3. How does x^2 + x + 3 relate to area in real life?
  4. Nm conversion to pound/feet or poun/inches

May 19 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 19

  1. Reprised Confusion over Wikipedia Definitions of Sigma Additivity
  2. Parzen density estimate conditional variance
  3. Convergent or Divergent ?
  4. Minimum value of difference of Powers of Integers

May 20 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 20

  1. Rationalisation

May 21 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 21

  1. Twin primes

May 22 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 22

  1. Free loop generalization of Chen's iterated integrals

May 24 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 24

  1. Integral of different type
  2. Antiderivative of gamma function
  3. Ruler and compass construction
  4. Interior of connected components
  5. Combining p-values
  6. martingale versus random walk

May 25 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 25

  1. Parameters of a mechanical system
  2. Find the value of 'x' in the triangle of linked image
  3. height of arc from length of arc and length of chord

May 26 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 26

  1. P!=NP based on its own proof difficulty?
  2. Green's relations

May 27 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 27

  1. Resumed Discussion of Reprised Confusion over Wikipedia Definitions of Sigma Additivity

May 28 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 28

  1. A Number With All Digits Equal Can Never Be A Perfect Square

May 29 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 29

  1. Irrotational points of a vector field

May 30 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 30

  1. Generalized totient function
  2. Elliptic integrals and Gaussian integrals

May 31 edit

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2013 May 31

  1. Linear independence of partial derivatives
  2. Two questions related to sphere packing...
  3. Borsuk's question
  4. Is it correct to equate the 2nd equation?