Without using computer programs, can we find the last non-zero digit of $$(\dots((2018\underset{! \text{ occurs }1009\text{ times}}{\underbrace{!)!)!\dots)!}}$$?
What I know is that the last non-zero digit of ##2018!## is ##4##, but I do not know what to do with that ##4##.
Is it useful that...
My question relates to subsection 2.2.1 of [this article][1]. This subsection recalls the work of Lindgren, Rue, and Lindström (2011) on Gaussian Markov Random Fields (GMRFs). The subsection starts with a two-dimensional regular lattice where the 4 first-order neighbours of $u_{i,j}$ are...
Professor showed this result in the lecture without giving any proof (after proving the existence of the interpolating polynomial in two variables). I've been trying to prove it myself or find a book where is proved but I failed. This is the theorem:
Let
$$ x_0 < x_1 < \cdots < x_n \in [a, b]...
My first thought as well but I think the problem is deeper than that. I think that as the n tends towards infinity the probability of the the sample mean converging to the population mean is 1. Looking at proving this.
By the Central Limit Theorem the sample mean distribution can be approximated...