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Why This Terrifying Exponent Problem Has a Tiny Answer

Why This Terrifying Exponent Problem Has a Tiny Answer polymathematic

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Finding the Area by Looking the Wrong Way First

Finding the Area by Looking the Wrong Way First polymathematic

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Did Harvard Really Ask This on Their Entrance Exam?

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What Is a Logarithm, Really? polymathematic

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Exterior Angle Sum: How the Slow Turtle Helps Explain a Mind-Bending Mathematical Result polymathematic

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What the 1869 MIT Entrance Exam Reveals About Math Today

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Cracking the Commanders Code: Can NFL Wins Predict the White House? polymathematic

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Can We Ace This Empty Set True/False? Guide to Set Theory Basics

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Are You Smarter Than OpenAI’s ChatGPT o1? The Prince and Princess Puzzle polymathematic

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Absolute Value with Two Variables? Say Less: Optimizing Absolute Equation Solving.

Absolute Value with Two Variables? Say Less: Optimizing Absolute Equation Solving. polymathematic

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The Root of the Problem: Solving a Nested Square Root Equation by Applying Exponent Rules

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Buy Low, Sell High: Solving the Cow Meme Profit Puzzle polymathematic

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Five Rectangles, One Square: What's the Area? polymathematic

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Inverting Exponentiation? Why Logarithms and Roots Are a Bit Weird.

Inverting Exponentiation? Why Logarithms and Roots Are a Bit Weird. polymathematic

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The Golden Ratio and the Natural Log: An “Integral” Connection

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An Infinite Sum that Will Leave You Speechless: Tackling a Putnam Problem

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Turning a $1000 Investment into $10 Million: The Power of Charlie Munger's Patience polymathematic

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Factorials Unfolded: Crafting a Perfect Square out of the Product of the First Hundred Factorials

Factorials Unfolded: Crafting a Perfect Square out of the Product of the First Hundred Factorials polymathematic

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Why Shift the Bounds? U-Substitution with cos³(x) Explained polymathematic

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Direct, Inverse, and Joint Variation Explained: Master Constant Ratios and Products

Direct, Inverse, and Joint Variation Explained: Master Constant Ratios and Products polymathematic

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The Perfect Square Secret of Consecutive Integers // Math Minute [#75]

The Perfect Square Secret of Consecutive Integers // Math Minute [#75] polymathematic

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What Are Prime Numbers For?

What Are Prime Numbers For? polymathematic

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You're Hired! 2D In and Out from PrepTest 23 Game 2 // Logic Games [#36] [LSAT Analytical Reasoning]

You're Hired! 2D In and Out from PrepTest 23 Game 2 // Logic Games [#36] [LSAT Analytical Reasoning] polymathematic

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How many times will tan x be equal to a series of its reciprocals?

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Solve This Quadratics Question with Some Clever Geometry // [MATH CONTEST] #SoME3 polymathematic

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How Probability Helps Us Understand an Unbeatable Game

How Probability Helps Us Understand an Unbeatable Game polymathematic

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A Pi Sudoku Puzzle (for Pi Day!)

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Prime Gaps As Large As You Want (and Larger!) // [NUMBER THEORY]

Prime Gaps As Large As You Want (and Larger!) // [NUMBER THEORY] polymathematic

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It’s Not 4: Deep Dive on Some Interesting Polynomials polymathematic

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Puzzling Quarter Circle Area Problem [Geometry] polymathematic

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Interactive Unit Circle, Built in @Desmos

Interactive Unit Circle, Built in @Desmos polymathematic

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Happy New Year! 2023 Reciprocal Problem // [Math Minute 67]

Happy New Year! 2023 Reciprocal Problem // [Math Minute 67] polymathematic

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Nice Little Linear Algebra Problem from a Fibonacci-esque Sequence

Nice Little Linear Algebra Problem from a Fibonacci-esque Sequence polymathematic

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The Easiest Problem on the Hardest Test [2017 Putnam Competition A1]

The Easiest Problem on the Hardest Test [2017 Putnam Competition A1] polymathematic

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Linear Programming: Optimizing with Inequalities [Art of Problem Solving Intro to Algebra 9.40]

Linear Programming: Optimizing with Inequalities [Art of Problem Solving Intro to Algebra 9.40] polymathematic

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A Most Unfair Test Question: Combining Sequence Notation and Log Notation in the Same Problem

A Most Unfair Test Question: Combining Sequence Notation and Log Notation in the Same Problem polymathematic

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Amazing Circle Area Formula: Infinitely Many Tiny Triangles polymathematic

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Using L'Hopital's Rule to find a Special Inverse Tangent Limit // Math Minute [#61]

Using L'Hopital's Rule to find a Special Inverse Tangent Limit // Math Minute [#61] polymathematic

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Using L'Hopital's Rule to Find the e Limit // Math Minute [#60] [CALCULUS] [ANALYSIS] polymathematic

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Understanding Euler's Number e: Give a Dollar, Get a Dollar

Understanding Euler's Number e: Give a Dollar, Get a Dollar polymathematic

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Proving a Negative Times a Negative Is a Positive with the Distributive Property

Proving a Negative Times a Negative Is a Positive with the Distributive Property polymathematic

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Domain Coloring the Real Number Line // #SoME2 [ALGEBRA] [ANALYSIS]

Domain Coloring the Real Number Line // #SoME2 [ALGEBRA] [ANALYSIS] polymathematic

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How Many Squares on an 8×8 Chessboard? [MATH CONTEST] polymathematic

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$1,000,000 Right Now or a Dollar per Second for a Year? A Cautionary Exponential Tale polymathematic

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The Freshman's Dream, Explained: If a+b=c, a² + b² = c² too?

The Freshman's Dream, Explained: If a+b=c, a² + b² = c² too? polymathematic

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Chinese Math vs American Math — Why Weren't We Taught This?!

Chinese Math vs American Math — Why Weren't We Taught This?! polymathematic

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