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Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher who discovered that in a right angled triangle (triangle with one angle 90 degrees) the hypotenuse squared , c², ...

Here is a genuine probability question I once tackled:

“In your sock drawer there are 6 blue socks, 2 red socks and 2 white socks, distributed so that the probability of ...

Often, it can seem daunting when you are asked to differentiate a function that looks particularly messy. However, it's really quite simple if you break it down in easy to manage steps....

How to integrate ln(x)?

In order to integrate log x of base e, we are going to apply integration by parts.

Recall that the formula for integration by parts i...

We all know the the square root of 2 is irrational. So, the answer should be no. But how do we prove it?Let's assume for contradiction that x²=2 and that x is rational. Then x can be expressed ...