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Burnside lemma and Pólya enumeration theorem examples
Observe that the convention at the OEIS is that the term necklace
refers to the slots being arranged around a circle with rotational
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More for my own sake than anything else. Integration duplicates tend to be quite hard to find due to the large amount of symbols in titles. Here is a short list of some famous integrals that pop up ...
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Hypergeometric/Summation Identities summation
Rather than have these broken up among algebra-precalculus, proof by induction, combinatorics, etc. I am gathering them all in one place.
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Probability probability
"Two Children Puzzle / Boy Born on a Tuesday" and variants:
In a family with two children, what are the chances, if one of the children is a girl, that both ...
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Questions about [irreducible-polynomials] concerning generic methods:
Methods to see if a polynomial is irreducible
How to choose correct strategy for irreducibility testing in $\mathbb{Z}[X]$?
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What do upvotes and downvotes mean on Meta?
I am adding this answer because the question came up again recently and, while much of what I wrote is a little redundant, there is an aspect of the culture of MSE which I think is worth discussing.
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A couple of analysis exercises that appear frequently:
prove that $f'(a)=\lim_{x\rightarrow a}f'(x)$.
if $f'(x)\rightarrow L$ as $ x \rightarrow \infty$, $-\infty \leq L \leq \infty $ ...
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Should we have a canonical/FAQ answer regarding minimization of "Boolean" (i.e. propositional) expressions?
A canonical answer would not be useful to this topic. Let's focus on the particular topic of questions asking about the minimization of a particular boolean expression, because, outside of this, we ...
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