@@ End of Day Wrap Thurs 15/1/15 Sydney, Australia Time 12:55am (Really Fri) ♪ ♫
Hello everyone,
Lots of fabulous answers today from Heureka, CPhill, Rampager1998, diamond, all-them-marvel-feels, Alan, Rosala, Cairo, Geno3141, Mathew120 and yllen. A great big thank you to each of you. I hope I didn't forget anyone.
I stumbled upon some really interesting maths clips today. You might like to take a look. ![]()
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Numberphile+website
I have added this to our "reference material" Sticky topic. ![]()
Interest Posts:
1) This one provided some entertainment.
Thanks Rosala and Chris ![]()
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/are-you-seeking-unanswered-questions
2) Using logs in investments Thanks Geno
3) Weight and volume : For everyone ! Geno, anon and Melody
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/1-kg-is-equal-to-how-many-liter
4) What is the biggest prime number. The clip is entertaining.
Geno and Melody
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/all-prime-numbers_1
5) Finding height of a right triangle. Thanks Rampager, Heureka and Alan
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/height-of-a-right-triangle-without-area
6) Number Pattern. Thanks Chris and Heureka ![]()
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/whats-the-pattern-for-1-3-9-81-243
7) This looks interesting. Reflection, rotation and vectors Thanks Heureka and Geno
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/isa-b-perpendicular-to-ab-explain-your-answer
8) Why is 0!=1
This includes a really interesting video clip, it explains factorial and the gamma function. Melody
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/why-is-0-equal-to-1
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Fri 15/1/15
I constantly see people change mixed numeral into improper fractions for addition and subtraction and it is just not necessary. Tetration, you have done a nice, very well presented answer here and I thank you but I would really like you and others to take a proper look at my answer. It is always good to examine new techniques. I get excited when I see and learn better methods to solve or teach an old problem.
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/what-is-9-3-and-1-3
1) Melody in silly mode
2) Find the whole when given a percentage. Thanks Tetration.
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/154-employees-is-7-of-what-employees
3) How long has mathematics been taught in classrooms? Thanks Geno
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/what-was-the-first-school-to-teach-math
4) Graphical Interpretaion of proportionality. Thanks CPhill
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/help-please-math-problem
5) I had another crack at presenting long division with LaTex.
Heureka and I have tried this a few different ways. Heureka's last attempt was better. ![]()
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/how-do-u-do-92-divide-6-3-in-long-division-nbsp
6) A great probability logic exercise. Great answer from Heureka, good questioning by Rosala. Thanks
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Sorry Tenacious,
I have only just seen your question.
If your question gets overlooked then I suggest you follow these instructions to highlight this fact.
http://web2.0calc.com/questions/instructions-on-reposting_1
I suggest you forget about the fractions.
It is not something of mathematical importance.
Wolfram|Alpha interprets the answer to be 1/4
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+is+the+highest+common+factor+of+1%2F2+and+1%2F4
Honestly I do not think you should be getting hung up over this. ![]()
I shall ask other mathematicians to comment.
Here you go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfk_L4Nx2ZI
Thanks for asking this question. I really enjoyed the video clip.
It starts at the very beginning - explaining what factorial means.
Then if progresses to gamma functions.
so there is something for almost every one.
ALSO
The is a clip from the Numberphile website I'll bet their other clips are just as interesting. ![]()