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If I remove the leftmost one it becomes 37 which is ...Sun, 06 Sep 2026 23:00:54 -0400https://track.liberty.io/when-is-the-frobenius-endomorphism-an-automorphism.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/when-is-the-frobenius-endomorphism-an-automorphism.htmlI was thinking about some problem: Lef $F$ be a finite field with the characteristic $p$. Then a map $x\mapsto x^p$ is an automorphism. 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Show your work without calculator....Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:25:04 -0400https://track.liberty.io/the-subring-test.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/the-subring-test.htmlThis is how the Wikipedia article on subring defines the subring test The subring test states that for any ring $R$, a nonempty subset of $R$ is a subring if it is closed under addition and ...Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:12:34 -0400https://track.liberty.io/what-is-a-standard-curve.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/what-is-a-standard-curve.htmlI know you may find definitions out there for standard curve. But, how can we define it in a way that makes it more understandable and clear of what it does?...Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:08:50 -0400https://track.liberty.io/derivative-of-quaternions.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/derivative-of-quaternions.htmlI am trying to calculate the Jacobian of a function that has quaternions and 3D points in it. 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If not, what is the ...Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:09:26 -0400https://track.liberty.io/graph-theory-what-is-the-definition-of-the-sorted-edge-algorithm.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/graph-theory-what-is-the-definition-of-the-sorted-edge-algorithm.htmlI've been googling for a while and can't find a clear definition of the "sorted edge" algorithm--can anyone provide it please? A description would be helpful, but a simple statement of the algorit......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:09:25 -0400https://track.liberty.io/definition-of-very-ample-divisor.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/definition-of-very-ample-divisor.htmlSorry for my bad English. Let $X$ be scheme over $Y$, and $\mathscr{L}$ be invertible sheaf on $X$. By definition of Hartshorne's algebraic geometry (p120), $\mathscr{L}$ is very ample relative to......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:04:36 -0400https://track.liberty.io/limit-approaching-0-of-a-rational-defined-function.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/limit-approaching-0-of-a-rational-defined-function.htmlFor $f(x)=\begin{cases} e^{x^2}-1, & x \in \mathbb Q\\[2ex] 0, & x \not\in \mathbb Q \end{cases} $ Evaluate $\lim_{x\to 0}f(x)$. Can someone point me in the right direction? I have no ......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:58:45 -0400https://track.liberty.io/calculate-in-cm-the-length-of-segment-kl.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/calculate-in-cm-the-length-of-segment-kl.htmlLet ABCD be a rectangle such that AB = $ \sqrt {2} BC $. Let E be a point on the semicircle with diameter AB, as shown in the following figure. 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But can so......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:13:00 -0400https://track.liberty.io/what-is-the-derivative-of-the-folium-of-descartes.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/what-is-the-derivative-of-the-folium-of-descartes.html$$x^3+y^3=6xy\tag{1}\label{eq1}$$ $$\frac{dy}{dx}=\frac{\left(2y-x^{2}\right)}{y^{2}-2x}\tag{2}\label{eq2}$$ I embed the derivative $(2)$ into a 3D space by including variable $z$: $$z=\frac{\left(......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:11:35 -0400https://track.liberty.io/range-of-nonlinear-function.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/range-of-nonlinear-function.htmlI'd like to know the range of function $$f(x)=(x^2, x^3)$$ and how to proceed in these problems. (The domain is $R$ while the codomain is $R^2$.) What is the image of interval $[0,1]$?...Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:59:34 -0400https://track.liberty.io/solve-t-039-x-45-0-75-cdot-t-x-where-t-0-75.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/solve-t-039-x-45-0-75-cdot-t-x-where-t-0-75.htmlI need help with homework: Let $T'(x)=45-0.75\cdot T(x)$, where $T(0)=75$. 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Then $$H^s(\mathbb{R}^d)\hookrightarrow C_0^m(\mathbb{R}^d)$$That is: ......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:00:36 -0400https://track.liberty.io/is-there-a-way-to-calculate-absurdly-high-powers-closed.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/is-there-a-way-to-calculate-absurdly-high-powers-closed.htmlCould it be at all possible to calculate, say, $2^{250000}$, which would obviously have to be written in standard notation? It seems impossible without running a program on a supercomputer to work ......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:56:29 -0400https://track.liberty.io/convert-recursive-to-closed-formula.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/convert-recursive-to-closed-formula.htmlI got a particular sequence defined by the following recursive function: $$T_n = T_{n-1} \times 2 - T_{n-10}$$ I need help converting it to a closed form so I can calculate very large values of n ...Sun, 06 Sep 2026 14:53:49 -0400https://track.liberty.io/is-there-a-sign-for-039-not-less-than-039-039-not-greater-than-039-etc.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/is-there-a-sign-for-039-not-less-than-039-039-not-greater-than-039-etc.htmlI was wondering about this, just now, because I was trying to write something like: $880$ is not greater than $950$. 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So the notation is a......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:35:53 -0400https://track.liberty.io/distribution-of-log-x-if-x-is-uniform.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/distribution-of-log-x-if-x-is-uniform.htmlFor $X$ and $Y$ random variables; $X$ follows the uniform distribution. (1): if $Y=-\log X$ (2): then it can be shown that $-\log X$ is distributed as $\exp(1)$ {i.e. exponential with mean 1}. W......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:31:27 -0400https://track.liberty.io/proving-a-relation-is-partial-ordering.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/proving-a-relation-is-partial-ordering.htmlI have a problem proving that a very simple relation is partial ordering. It is defined explicitly (i.e. with pairs of numbers) and I have no idea how to do a formal proof for its antisymmetric pro......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:30:55 -0400https://track.liberty.io/multiplication-of-two-upper-triangular-matrices.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/multiplication-of-two-upper-triangular-matrices.htmlConsider the product $C=(C_{ij})$ of two upper triangular matrices $A=(a_{ij})$ and $B=(b_{ij})$, with $n=m$ (rows=columns). Deduce the expression of $C=(C_{ij})$. I'm trying to do this proof but ......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:22:38 -0400https://track.liberty.io/rotation-matrix-of-rotation-around-a-point-other-than-the-origin.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/rotation-matrix-of-rotation-around-a-point-other-than-the-origin.htmlIn homogeneous coordinates, a rotation matrix around the origin can be described as $R = \begin{bmatrix}\cos(\theta) & -\sin(\theta) & 0\\\sin(\theta) & \cos(\theta) & 0 \\ 0&0......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:21:57 -0400https://track.liberty.io/calculating-christoffel-symbol-of-the-second-kind-in-coordinates-where.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/calculating-christoffel-symbol-of-the-second-kind-in-coordinates-where.htmlExercise 86,pg-73 of Pavel Grinfeld's Tensor Calculus Book: Derive the Christoffel symbols in spherical and cylindrical coordinates by the equation:$$\Gamma_{ij}^k= \frac12 Z^{km} \left[ \frac{\par......Sun, 06 Sep 2026 13:14:55 -0400https://track.liberty.io/how-to-find-time-period-of-a-discrete-time-signal.htmlhttps://track.liberty.io/how-to-find-time-period-of-a-discrete-time-signal.html𝑥[𝑛] = cos (𝑛/8− 𝜋) Getting the value of cos(0)=1. 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