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Sunday Function

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Step right up, Ladies and Gentlemen! Get your ticket to see the True Oddities of the Natural World! Do not be taken in by the Shameful Forgeries at Inferior Circuses, here you will see Genuine Curiosities from the Mists of...

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Sunday Function

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A generating function

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Sunday Function

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...you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel lucky?' Well, do ya, punk? - Dirty Harry The laws of probability, like most of the mathematical rules that govern the world, are a relatively recent discovery. Ancient people like...

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Sunday Function

Category: Sunday Function

There's an interesting contrast between the laws of nature and the laws which constitute our legal system. The laws of nature are compact and precise; written in standard notation without accompanying explanation, the fundamental laws fit on a few pages....

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Sunday Function

Category: Sunday Function

We've spent more than a few Sunday Function features discussing the properties of the prime numbers. They're just so important and interesting in number theory that they're an irresistible target. Let's set some scenery before getting to the actual function...

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Sunday Function

Category: Sunday Function

Before her career took an unfortunate wrong turn, a young and talented Lindsay Lohan gave us a charming and popular comedy called Mean Girls. Time has been good to the careers of some of the others involved, Tiny Fey and...

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Sunday Function

Category: Sunday Function

Square roots made simple.

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Sunday Function

Category: Sunday Function

Just a quick one today, as I get caught back up from Thanksgiving. We all know and love the very basic quadratic function. Any second-order polynomial will give you a nice little parabola, which of course is ubiquitous in physics....

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Sunday Function

Category: Sunday Function

In math as in life, we like to pretend that the things we encounter are well-behaved and play by the rules to which we're accustomed.

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Sunday Function

Category: Sunday Function

We're doing two functions today. If I'm not mistaken we've done each of them separately, but there's a famous and interesting relationship between the two that's always interesting to look at. Like very many interesting mathematical facts, it has to...

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