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2. Collatz conjecture - Wikipedia

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   For instance, the first counterexample must be odd because f(2n) = n, smaller than 2n; and it must be 3 mod 4 because f 2 (4n + 1) = 3n + 1, smaller than 4n + 1. For each starting value a which is not a counterexample to the Collatz conjecture, there is a k for which such an inequality holds, so checking the Collatz conjecture for one starting ...

3. Rhind Mathematical Papyrus - Wikipedia

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   Problems 1–6 compute divisions of a certain number of loaves of bread by 10 men and record the outcome in unit fractions. Problems 7–20 show how to multiply the expressions 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 = 7/4, and 1 + 2/3 + 1/3 = 2 by different fractions. Problems 21–23 are problems in completion, which in modern notation are simply subtraction problems.

4. Division (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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   Division is one of the four basic operations of arithmetic. The other operations are addition, subtraction, and multiplication. What is being divided is called the dividend, which is divided by the divisor, and the result is called the quotient. At an elementary level the division of two natural numbers is, among other possible interpretations ...

5. 17-animal inheritance puzzle - Wikipedia

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   A variant of the story has been told with 11 camels, to be divided into 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 4, and 1 ⁄ 6. [22] [23] Another variant of the puzzle appears in the book The Man Who Counted, a mathematical puzzle book originally published in Portuguese by Júlio César de Mello e Souza in 1938. This version starts with 35 camels, to be divided in the ...

6. Equation solving - Wikipedia

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   Solving an equation symbolically means that expressions can be used for representing the solutions. For example, the equation x + y = 2x – 1 is solved for the unknown x by the expression x = y + 1, because substituting y + 1 for x in the equation results in (y + 1) + y = 2 (y + 1) – 1, a true statement. It is also possible to take the ...

7. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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   As already remarked, most sources in the topic of probability, including many introductory probability textbooks, solve the problem by showing the conditional probabilities that the car is behind door 1 and door 2 are ⁠ 1 / 3 ⁠ and ⁠ 2 / 3 ⁠ (not ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠ and ⁠ 1 / 2 ⁠) given that the contestant initially picks door 1 and the ...

8. Babylonian mathematics - Wikipedia

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   Babylonian mathematics is a range of numeric and more advanced mathematical practices in the ancient Near East, written in cuneiform script. Study has historically focused on the Old Babylonian period in the early second millennium BC due to the wealth of data available.

9. Sides of an equation - Wikipedia

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   In contrast, an equation with a non-zero RHS is called inhomogeneous or non-homogeneous, as exemplified by Lf = g, with g a fixed function, which equation is to be solved for f. Then any solution of the inhomogeneous equation may have a solution of the homogeneous equation added to it, and still remain a solution.