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    Is A equivalent to B in propositional calculus?

    Maybe a more direct way would be : ## x \in A ## iff ## x \in B ##.
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    Understanding Manifolds: Questions & Answers

    A boundary is just a sort of "kink" in the manifold, so that near the boundary point the manifold is not locally like R^n. But I agree with lavinia; to get more out of an answer, it helps if you read the def first and ask something more specific.
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    Integrating Forms on Manifolds: Understanding the Concept and Techniques

    Well, one issue is the independence of integration of forms on the choice of coordinates, which is not the case for functions.
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    Usefulness of partition of unity?

    Basically, P.O.U's allow you to patch locally-defined objects, like Riemannian metrics in the manifold into globally defined objects.
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    Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

    But 3.1416 is a better approximation to 3.1415927... than 3.1415. Maybe the better thing about 3.1415 is that it can be extended into a better approximation.
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    Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

    I was literally one of just two people at the movie theater tonight ( the 2nd person did not come with me). I felt like saying to him/her "you're in my seat", but I didn't know how it would be received.
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    Paper: Attention decay in science

    Yes,good point, maybe were relatively early into the information age and we do not yet have good-enough data mining, both at a personal and industrial/institutional level.
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    Paper: Attention decay in science

    Actually, the way I define it, the issue is not too much information, but too much noise. I define information on topic x to be anything that reduces the options/alternatives on determining a quality about x and different statements provide different measures of information on x. Example...
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    Rationale behind using pirated software

    Strictly speaking s/he stated that the message may have been edited by a mentor/staff, that s/he did not clearly remember whether this was the case or not I don't see what is wrong here. Was your message distorted somehow by this edit? What part was edited-in, do you know; can you show it? I...
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    Rationale behind using pirated software

    I actually agree with WWGD in that the only way of having a reasonably-level playing field between those with few resources and those with plenty is to ignore copyright _until_ one moves up in the professional ladder. After that, no more freebies. And it is absurd that countries with...
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    Solutions to Span of Functions Problems

    It would be nice if the OP could be more specific about the vector space s/he is working in; gummz, can you tell us more about what space you are working in? are g,h part of a basis for the space?
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    How well do you know the multiplication table?

    And how about the trick of dividing by 2 and appending a zero when multiplying by 5 ? This is just because 5 =10/2. Say you want to find 36 x 5 . Then 36/2 =18 and 18 x 10 =180. By the same trick, dividing by 5 is multiplying by 2 and appending a zero : 240/5 240 x2 =480 , 480/10= 480.
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    The ant and honey problem on a spherical bowl - shortest paths?

    Can the depth be different from R when the curvature is constant, with value 1/R; I would have thought the bowl would have to be a hemisphere (so that the vertical distance from rim to base would then be R) ; in this case the lower hemisphere. Am I missing something here?
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    The ant and honey problem on a spherical bowl - shortest paths?

    But, if the curvature is constant, with value 1/R, can the depth then be greater than R? Maybe I misunderstood?
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    Discover the Solution to Sin(arctan(x/4)) with Expert Guidance

    Set up a right triangle with sides x and 4, so that the tangent of one of the angles is x/4, i.e., tanθ=x/4. Then θ=tan^{-1}(x/4) . From the drawing, figure out the value of sinθ.
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