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Shalashaska_123
Profile Blog Joined July 2013
United States142 Posts
June 14 2017 19:06 GMT
#81
Hi, JimmyJRaynor.

Integration is essentially multiplication of a function with an infinitesimal quantity, whereas differentiation is division of the function's change with an infinitesimal quantity.
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 20:21:22
June 14 2017 20:13 GMT
#82
I am looking for a relation

the pattern is as follows

n: 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63
i: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

I need a formula for i as a function of n

I am not sure how to do it. I understand how n grows and I understand how i grows and I can relate them positionally in a list but I don't know how to write i as a function of n

I know we have some clever people at TL... here is a chance to show off
hypercube
Profile Joined April 2010
Hungary2735 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 20:35:04
June 14 2017 20:32 GMT
#83
On June 15 2017 05:13 travis wrote:
I am looking for a relation

the pattern is as follows

n: 1, 3, 7, 15, 31, 63
i: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

I need a formula for i as a function of n

I am not sure how to do it. I understand how n grows and I understand how i grows and I can relate them positionally in a list but I don't know how to write i as a function of n

I know we have some clever people at TL... here is a chance to show off


Introduce a new variable k and write n(k) and i(k). Now find the inverse, i.e. k(n). Substitute to get i(k(n)), or i(n).

edit: for example you could just say k is the position in the list, so you would have n = 2^k - 1 and i = 2k
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Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
June 14 2017 20:48 GMT
#84
very cool... thank you
I knew there must be a way, lol
Shalashaska_123
Profile Blog Joined July 2013
United States142 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 21:33:44
June 14 2017 21:21 GMT
#85
Hi, travis.

I'm gonna call the first and second sequences of numbers you listed a_n and b_n, respectively. We can represent them as follows.

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Solve the second equation for n.

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Substitute it into the first equation and solve for b_n.

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Therefore, the final answer is this.

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EDIT: Fixed.
fishjie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1519 Posts
June 14 2017 22:04 GMT
#86
OR, since i is just all the multiples of 2, and doesn't really depend on n at all. Let i(x) be the function for i and n(x) be the function for n:

i(x) = 2x + n(x) * 0

this is a joke post and the answer above is the correct one
JimmyJRaynor
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada17411 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-14 22:10:40
June 14 2017 22:10 GMT
#87
On June 15 2017 04:06 Shalashaska_123 wrote:
Hi, JimmyJRaynor.

Integration is essentially multiplication of a function with an infinitesimal quantity, whereas differentiation is division of the function's change with an infinitesimal quantity.

that's pretty good. i like that one. thx for posting.
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Nesserev
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
Belgium2760 Posts
June 15 2017 06:20 GMT
#88
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Kleinmuuhg
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Vanuatu4091 Posts
June 15 2017 18:24 GMT
#89
this should be fun
This is our town, scrub
fishjie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1519 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-15 19:09:39
June 15 2017 19:09 GMT
#90
Here are some resources. I took applied algorithms in spring as part of my professional masters program, and most of the stuff flew over my head. i only learned what i had to for homework. now i'm going back to try to understand the stuff. One of the most unexpected thing for me (and apparently other people who've taken applied algorithms before shared same surprise) is that the class is almost entirely theory. We did have some coding assignments, but most of it is math. I'll be posting more stuff as I go over my class notes. I just finished my masters and realized I haven't mastered anything.

Shannon Entropy - we also used this in Machine Learning when we had to code a decision tree learner.
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~jrl/teaching/cse599swi16/notes/lecture1.pdf

Spectral graph
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse521/16sp/521-lecture-12.pdf

Spectral algorithm for clustering
https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse521/16sp/521-lecture-11.pdf
DanielReeLee
Profile Joined October 2015
2 Posts
June 15 2017 23:34 GMT
#91
Hello I'm looking for some problem sets for multivariable and vector calculus. Could I have some recommendations
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-16 19:16:10
June 16 2017 19:15 GMT
#92
Ok here is a math question everyone.

Lets say I have a list of n elements.

I analyze my elements, reduce the amount of elements by 1, then cut the elements in half. Now I have 2 lists of elements, 1 of size (n-1)/2 and the other of size n/2.

I do this over and over until i am left with many lists of 2 elements (and lists of 1 elements.. but for this question we don't consider those).

So the question is, how many lists did we go through in total? where n was a list at the top, n/2 and n-1/2 were lists, ((n/2)-1)/2 and (n/2)/2 were lists, etc etc all the way down to our lists of 2. Lists of 1, left over, do not count.

Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18251 Posts
June 16 2017 19:38 GMT
#93
Not sure I understand the question. Would this be how you do it for n=100:
100
2*50
4* 25
8*12 (and 4*1 which we discard)
16*6
32*3
32*2 (and 32*1 which we discard)

So 95 in total?

If so, approximately n/2 + n/4 + ... ~= n

A precise answer is harder, because you need to know how many times you end up with an odd number of elements in your list. There's almost certainly a numerical way of figuring that out, but I'm lazy right now.
hypercube
Profile Joined April 2010
Hungary2735 Posts
June 16 2017 19:40 GMT
#94
On June 17 2017 04:15 travis wrote:
Now I have 2 lists of elements, 1 of size (n-1)/2 and the other of size n/2.


One of these is not an integer.
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hypercube
Profile Joined April 2010
Hungary2735 Posts
June 16 2017 19:47 GMT
#95
On June 16 2017 08:34 DanielReeLee wrote:
Hello I'm looking for some problem sets for multivariable and vector calculus. Could I have some recommendations


Check out the multivariable calculus course on MIT OCW.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-02sc-multivariable-calculus-fall-2010/

There's a short problem set at the end of each chapter, as well as a longer list of supplemental problems for all 4 major chapters (with solutions).
"Sending people in rockets to other planets is a waste of money better spent on sending rockets into people on this planet."
Amanebak
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Czech Republic528 Posts
June 16 2017 19:53 GMT
#96
Hey.
I stumbled across a problem like this:

What is the longest gondola that can take a right-angle turn of a Venetian canal? The width of the canal is 2, respectively 3 length units before, resp. after the turn.

I apologize for my English.
BW
Deleted User 3420
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
24492 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-16 19:56:58
June 16 2017 19:54 GMT
#97
On June 17 2017 04:38 Acrofales wrote:
Not sure I understand the question. Would this be how you do it for n=100:
100
2*50
4* 25
8*12 (and 4*1 which we discard)
16*6
32*3
32*2 (and 32*1 which we discard)

So 95 in total?

If so, approximately n/2 + n/4 + ... ~= n

A precise answer is harder, because you need to know how many times you end up with an odd number of elements in your list. There's almost certainly a numerical way of figuring that out, but I'm lazy right now.


well, for n = 100

100
50 , 49
25, 24 24, 24

12, 12, 11, 12, 11, 12, 11, 12
5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6
2, 2, - oh god there is a lot, u get the idea
it would stop at all 1s and 2s but the 1s don't count
and what I want is the count of EVERY list of length > 1, including the original list and the lists in every step


On June 17 2017 04:40 hypercube wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 17 2017 04:15 travis wrote:
Now I have 2 lists of elements, 1 of size (n-1)/2 and the other of size n/2.


One of these is not an integer.


hmm yeah that's true
what I really want is... uh.. the floor of (n-1)/2 .. I think. see above, lol

I expect the best way to solve this is to represent it with sums and then simplify them but I am not good enough
Acrofales
Profile Joined August 2010
Spain18251 Posts
Last Edited: 2017-06-16 20:36:43
June 16 2017 20:36 GMT
#98
On June 17 2017 04:54 travis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 17 2017 04:38 Acrofales wrote:
Not sure I understand the question. Would this be how you do it for n=100:
100
2*50
4* 25
8*12 (and 4*1 which we discard)
16*6
32*3
32*2 (and 32*1 which we discard)

So 95 in total?

If so, approximately n/2 + n/4 + ... ~= n

A precise answer is harder, because you need to know how many times you end up with an odd number of elements in your list. There's almost certainly a numerical way of figuring that out, but I'm lazy right now.


well, for n = 100

100
50 , 49
25, 24 24, 24

12, 12, 11, 12, 11, 12, 11, 12
5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 6
2, 2, - oh god there is a lot, u get the idea
it would stop at all 1s and 2s but the 1s don't count
and what I want is the count of EVERY list of length > 1, including the original list and the lists in every step


Show nested quote +
On June 17 2017 04:40 hypercube wrote:
On June 17 2017 04:15 travis wrote:
Now I have 2 lists of elements, 1 of size (n-1)/2 and the other of size n/2.


One of these is not an integer.


hmm yeah that's true
what I really want is... uh.. the floor of (n-1)/2 .. I think. see above, lol

I expect the best way to solve this is to represent it with sums and then simplify them but I am not good enough

Oh, ok. That seems incomplete. The 6s would expand to 3, 2, right? And what would then happen? It ends there? Seems like a weird algorithm.

I thought I had a simple solution, but it breaks if any list in your subdivisions has length equal to a power of 2 (that adds 1, which can occur at different points in the tree). So doesn't work, and given the weirdness of your algorithm, I'm not sure there's an easy way of figuring out how often you'll run into a power of 2.
hypercube
Profile Joined April 2010
Hungary2735 Posts
June 16 2017 20:39 GMT
#99
Did you try some numerical experiments?

Are you interested in an exact expression or only asymptotic behaviour? The second one seems to be just on the order of n.
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Simberto
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Germany11792 Posts
June 16 2017 20:42 GMT
#100
On June 17 2017 04:53 Amanebak wrote:
Hey.
I stumbled across a problem like this:

What is the longest gondola that can take a right-angle turn of a Venetian canal? The width of the canal is 2, respectively 3 length units before, resp. after the turn.

I apologize for my English.


Unless i missed something, the result is 5*sqrt(2).

The gondola needs to be able fit into the diagonal of the (2+3)*(2+3) square, which has a length of 5 sqrt (2)

At that point, 2sqrt(2) of the gondola is in the thinner canal, and 3sqrt(2) is in the thicker canal. It is obvious that no longer gondola could reach as far into the 3m canal if you draw a picture of the situation, and the 5sqrt(2) gondola can continue onwards from this point on.
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