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August 1

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1. Rational Prime
2. How many cards are in the bag?
3. Maximizing Expected Value For A Unique Event

August 2

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1. Sharing birthdays
2. Rate of ageing calculation
3. Zonal spherical harmonics

August 3

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1. Perimeter of the USA
2. Primes of the form 7^n+2

August 4

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1. P value calculation

August 5

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1. Associated Spherical Functions ?
2. Ring of square matrices --- subrings with interesting center
3. Is there a name for this computation?

August 6

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1. What is the best way to indicate high sales in this situation?
2. Dilations

August 7

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1. Notation for points in 4D space

August 8

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1. Geography: How do they compute the mathematical area of oddly-shaped land masses?

August 10

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1. Double angle tangent function

August 12

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1. What's so special about $1-sqrt[n]x$ ?
2. Thermal resistance of a wire in partial contact with a disk
3. Statistical question for a generator.

August 13

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1. Un-odd Rock Paper Scissors strategy

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2014 August 14

1. Parallel curves in geometric algebra?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2014 August 16

1. Knuth's up-arrow notation

August 18

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1. Determining relative advantages of traits

August 19

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1. Thermal resistance from a wire through a disk
2. Components Exceed The Average Squared
3. Simplification of bincoef series?

August 21

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1. Deriving the Taylor series of the secant function

August 22

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1. Taylor /Maclaurin Series number of roots

August 23

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1. Determining whether 4 points are a square viewed from somewhere...

August 24

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August 25

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1. Comparison of two integrals.

August 26

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1. Commutative magmas?
2. Derive variable values from formulae

August 28

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1. Why is Regression analysis called regression analysis?

August 29

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August 30

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August 31

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