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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 1

1. Drawing a line??

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 5

1. Why we decided to use base 10 instead of base 11, base 6, base 5, base 25, base 30 or base 36?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 9

1. Spherical coordinates converging

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 10

1. compactness
2. Circle group restrict to algebraic coordinates

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 12

1. Modular Arithmetic

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 15

1. Chain rule with multiple variables

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 16

1. Fast way to determine if is squarefree
2. Repeating decimals
3. Three rational numbers to meet given conditions
4. Is there a largest possible prime number?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 18

1. holes in the primes
2. Online ways to find factors of composite numbers

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 19

1. Cumulative die score

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 20

1. Geometry question
2. Single transferable vote eliminations

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 21

1. What's new in numerical methods?

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 22

1. Name for symmetric hyperbola conic section
2. A metric for the ordering of matrices?
3. counter example for that a real part of holomorphic function is not holomorphic
4. Differentiability of real part, imaginary part, and complex conjugate

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 23

1. bound to "sparsity" of a matrix
2. Rectangle with given Y coordinates

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 24

1. what is the point with the continuation of solution of an ode?

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 25

1. Tricky quadruple integral
2. Descriptive measure for decrease in standard error with increasing sample size

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Mathematics/2020 August 29

1. Is 0 a perfect number??