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Official Homework Help Thread
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Re: Official Homework Help Thread
here's an answer to just about any math problem, and half of science while yer at it. http://www.wolframalpha.com/
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Re: Official Homework Help Thread
Anyone here taken a Mathematical Analysis class? Either Intro or Complex? Some of the shit blows my mind.
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6. (5 pts) Give an example of a function f : R → R that is bounded and continuous on all of R but does not attain its maximum or its minimum anywhere on R.
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Edit: Answered f(x) = Arctan(x)
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Re: Official Homework Help Thread
BlackDragon wrote: Anyone here taken a Mathematical Analysis class? Either Intro or Complex? Some of the shit blows my mind.
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6. (5 pts) Give an example of a function f : R → R that is bounded and continuous on all of R but does not attain its maximum or its minimum anywhere on R.
~BD f(x) = arctan(x) Basically anything that approaches its maximum and minimum values as x goes to ± infinity.
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anilv wrote: BlackDragon wrote: Anyone here taken a Mathematical Analysis class? Either Intro or Complex? Some of the shit blows my mind.
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6. (5 pts) Give an example of a function f : R → R that is bounded and continuous on all of R but does not attain its maximum or its minimum anywhere on R.
~BD f(x) = arctan(x) Basically anything that approaches its maximum and minimum values as x goes to ± infinity. what would it mean if it isnt bounded?
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Re: Official Homework Help Thread
Not sure what you mean. If you remove the boundedness condition, the question is even easier. For example, f(x) = x is a continuous function on R that does not attain its maximum or minimum values.
More generally, it's always possible to find a function of this kind if its domain is not a closed and bounded subset of R. Such subsets are called compact and have many nice properties. R itself is not a bounded subset (although it is trivially closed), which is why functions of this kind exist. On the other hand, every continuous function f: [0,1] → R achieves its maximum and minimum values, where [0,1] denotes the closed interval.
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ah ok, i see.
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I was making that way more complicated than it needed to be... Go me. I wasn't even relating bounded to restricted. Oops. Yeah, I want to be a teacher someday and I'm thinking it is probably going to be math. I'm currently a math major and if I can swing it a comp sci major too. I was an English/Journalism major for most of my first 2 years in college, so most of my background is in English/media studies so far. I'd be more than willing to help people out with homework!
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Re: Official Homework Help Thread
sin(x/2) = cos(x/2)
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Threaten wrote: sin(x/2) = cos(x/2) x = 4 (pi n-tan^(-1)(1-sqrt(2))), n element Z x = 4 (pi n-tan^(-1)(1+sqrt(2))), n element Z http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=si ... 28x%2F2%29
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Hmm looks like more pure mathematics than what I do in the more engineering related maths....Interesting thread though, keen to see what pops up
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Re: Official Homework Help Thread
The equation bx^2+2bx=8 has one sollution, find b. i might be stupid, but i need help
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VatFF wrote: The equation bx^2+2bx=8 has one sollution, find b. i might be stupid, but i need help well... if it has one solution that means that the + and - versions of the quadratic formula equal each other.... so use that, plug it in for x, and solve for b.
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Re: Official Homework Help Thread
which means that inside the root of the abc formula you will get 0, right?
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VatFF wrote: which means that inside the root of the abc formula you will get 0, right? yesh
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