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Suppose you are asked by your teacher to sum all the integers from 1 up to 1000. You might be thinking they must hold some kind of grudge against you. If you try to calculate the sum by adding on each ...

Notation: I use the ^ in the title question to indicated 'to the power of' and I use an asterisk * (or star) to indicate 'multiplied by' in the answer, to avoid confusion with the x term! 

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y = x^x -- Yikes! Doesn't that look ugly. 
It's mostly the x^x part, since ... to the x is fine, and x to the ... is fine.
We must split the two x's in order to continue. 
Perhaps we ...

In simple terms a log is asking what power do I need to raise the base to to get that answer.For example log₂32.In this case the "base" is 2.So what power do you have to raise 2 to, t...

Practical applications of calculus occur more often than you would think. The most common example of them being applied to real world problems is through the relationship between distance and time. The...