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Mathematical joke playing on the Pythagorean theorem and imaginary numbers. Some jokes are based on imaginary number i, treating it as if it is a real number. A telephone intercept message of "you have dialed an imaginary number, please rotate your handset ninety degrees and try again" is a typical example. [15]
8) 9 + 9 + 9 -2 = 25 + 2 -2 (adding -2 to both sides of the equation to cancel the +2 on the right side, which means the bellhop returned the tip or gave a discount of $2) 9) 9 + 9 + 9 - 2 = 25 10) 27 - 2 = 25 11) 25 = 25. The puzzle should subtract the bellhop's tip from the $27 rather than add it.
The conjecture is that there is a simple way to tell whether such equations have a finite or infinite number of rational solutions. More specifically, the Millennium Prize version of the conjecture is that, if the elliptic curve E has rank r , then the L -function L ( E , s ) associated with it vanishes to order r at s = 1 .
Fermat's equation appears in the 2000 film Bedazzled with Elizabeth Hurley and Brendan Fraser. Hurley plays the devil who, in one of her many forms, appears as a school teacher who assigns Fermat's Last Theorem as a homework problem. [15] In the 2008 film adaptation of The Oxford Murders, Fermat's Last Theorem became "Bormat's". [19]
As already remarked, most sources in the topic of probability, including many introductory probability textbooks, solve the problem by showing the conditional probabilities that the car is behind door 1 and door 2 are 1 / 3 and 2 / 3 (not 1 / 2 and 1 / 2 ) given that the contestant initially picks door 1 and the ...
Math Lady, Confused Lady or Confused Math Lady, known in Brazil as Nazaré Confusa (Portuguese for Confused Nazaré), is an Internet meme. It shows Brazilian actress Renata Sorrah surrounded by mathematical problems, in a scene from 2004 Brazilian soap opera Senhora do Destino , where she plays Nazaré Tedesco.
An example of using Newton–Raphson method to solve numerically the equation f(x) = 0. In mathematics, to solve an equation is to find its solutions, which are the values (numbers, functions, sets, etc.) that fulfill the condition stated by the equation, consisting generally of two expressions related by an equals sign.
The student came up with several possible answers, but settled on dropping the barometer from the top of the building, timing its fall, and using the equation of motion = to derive the height. The examiner agreed that this satisfied the requirement and gave the student “almost full credit”.