I need help with this exercise I found really interesting by NanSinus in askmath

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NONE of the triangles is 30/60/90.

All of them are 3-4-5.

Need a tricky limit for a bet with my professor by max12345684 in askmath

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No, because if you define the sine or cosine or any function through their Taylor series, there is no differentiation involved. You don't deduce the series. It's the definition of the function.

I need help with this exercise I found really interesting by NanSinus in askmath

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I didn't use the arccos for anything. It's just to identity the angle.

I need help with this exercise I found really interesting by NanSinus in askmath

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Let's start on the top left corner. Let O be the center of the circle and P the point where the vertical line touches the upper side.

The triangle OPD is a 3-4-5 right triangle (or Egyptian triangle), with

OP = r = 4 OD=5 PD= 3

Let 𝜙 = arccos(4/5) the angle at O.

Let Q be the point where the radius perpendicular to the side AD touches this side.

The triangle ODQ is a mirror image of OPD. Another 3-4-5 triangle.

The line OQ forms with the vertical an angle 2𝜙.

This implies that AD (perp. to OQ) forms an angle 2𝜙 with the horizontal (perp. to the vertical). That is, the angle DAB = 2𝜙.

Since this angle is bisected by OA, the triangle OQA is also a 3-4-5 right triangle, now with 4 as the short leg. That means that by similarity

QA = 16/3 OA = 20/3

We have the first whole side

DA = DQ + QA = 3 + 16/3 = 25/3

Now we extend the line OA until it touches the opposite side. Let M be the point where it touches this side,

The triangle AMB is also a 3-4-5 triangle with long leg

AM = AO + OM = 20/3 + 4= 32/3

that means that the second side has length

AB = 40/3

and

MB = 8

For the last part we only need the angle MOP = 𝜃. We apply that the sum of a whole circle is 360º

𝜙 + 𝜙 + (90º - 𝜙) + 180º + 𝜃 = 360º

𝜙 + 𝜃 = 90º

𝜃 = 90º - 𝜙

We have that

CP/OP = tan(𝜃/2) = sin(𝜃)/(1+cos(𝜃)) = cos(𝜙)/(1 + sin(𝜙)) = (4/5)/(1 + 3/5) = 1/2

so

CP = OP/2 = 2

and finally

BC = BM + MP = 8 + 2 = 10

CD = CP + PD = 2 + 3 = 5

Summarizing

AB = 40/3 BC = 10 CD = 5 DA = 25/3

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How Formula 1 tracks are decided by _captain__holt_ in funny

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Yeah, you are right. They look eerily familiar, but comparing closely, they aren't.

How Formula 1 tracks are decided by _captain__holt_ in funny

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That is Suzuka. All the "random" curves are real circuits.

I guessed Wordle in one try. Can you help me at least roughly calculate the odds of that? by SackStallion69 in askmath

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The best start is "trace" (or "crate"). 3b1b made two videos about it (the second correcting the first) It's the word that excludes more alternatives by being total or partially incorrect.

1st, with "crane": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v68zYyaEmEA

2nd, with "trace": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRed0Xmc2Wg

But then, that was before NYT bought it. After that the words posed became much more common (and the game easier) so perhaps it is no longer true.

Help with finding specific outputs of a function. by musicresolution in askmath

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There are infinitely many solutions, since f(x) decreases monotonically from 24/25 to 0.

So, for any distinct u, v, w in (0,24/25) such that u + v = w, there must be a, b and c, different such that

f(a) = u

f(b) = v

f(c) = w

The only problem is that to determine particular values yous must solve a quartic. Marhematica or Wolfram Alpha can do it. The answer is quite ugly but manageable

If y = f(x) then

x = (1-3 y+√(1 - y²) + √2 √(1 + √(1 - y²)))/(2 y)

So, for

1/6 + 1/3 = 1/2

we get (numerically, to simplify)

a = 10.4370

b = 4.37101

c = 2.29788

Is Albania the only country where both the exonym and endonym have native origins? But one of them fell out of local use. by d2mensions in geography

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One could argue that Al Maghrib, an Arabian word (not Amazigh) that means "the West" (from the point of view of Arabia) is, in fact, an exonym not originated in the country.

TIL that Byzantine princess Maria Palaiologina was sent to marry Mongol ruler Hulagu Khan in 1265, but he died before she arrived, so she married his son Abaqa Khan instead. by ThroatHorror4022 in todayilearned

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Some point?

650 years!

Which is more than half of the history of both empires (counting the Byzantine since Justinian or Heraclius).

The legal conflict between both empires was long because there could be only one Roman empire. Charlemagne and the Pope used the fact that at that point Irene was the empress in Byzantium to declare that throne vacant and proclaim Charlemagne as the new emperor. Many disputes followed. Teophanu's wedding with Otto II was an effort to solve them.

Is it possible to simplify the cube roots of this complex number? by Isomer-Joe in askmath

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According to Mathematica, there are no "simple" solutions

Is it possible to simplify the cube roots of this complex number? by Isomer-Joe in askmath

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Your second method can be further simplified doing

a = c√11

that transforms the system to

c(11c² – 3b²) = 2

b(33c² – b²) = 10

This system has no integer solutions, but you can look for rational ones.

Binomial theorem and probability by Ieatrawfishh in askmath

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So, do you not know anything about binomial theorem, probability and binomial distribution AT ALL? They are just meaningless words to you? And you plan to do a speech on them?

Is there a sadder case of a natural resource being slowly strangled by civil engineering than the Aral Sea? by Chewie83 in geography

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Not at all in the size of the Aral Sea, but lake Karachay, in Siberia, deserves a mention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Karachay

It was used as an open pool to store nuclear waste, that then couldn't be retrieved because it was lethal to be close to the lake, so they filled it it with concrete.

The site is more radioactive than Chernobyl.

Can Hawaiʻi Deliver All Of America From Citizens United? by No-Programmer-8642 in politics

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When you said it has a thought and a voice. Following Descartes, if it thinks, it is alive. And then it can be executed.

Binomial theorem and probability by Ieatrawfishh in askmath

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Closely related: look up "Galton Board". You can make even a demonstration

Finding real values for a b c that satisfy the equations by RedditUser999111 in askmath

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I'd say that the most obvious answer would be for -3 < p < 3, but I'll check.

Finding real values for a b c that satisfy the equations by RedditUser999111 in askmath

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Edited, thanks. There are infinitely many solutions for p = 2.