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Steven Stadnicki

Seattle, WA

Age: 42

Software engineer and long-time dabbler in mathematics; 11th in the Putnams forever ago but I've long since atrophied.

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40 votes

What's the value of this Vieta-style product involving the golden ratio?

number-theory sequences-and-series asked Oct 6 '10 at 22:47
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How asymptotically bad is naive shuffling?

algorithms algorithm-analysis asymptotics probability-theory randomness asked Nov 6 '12 at 19:22
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How to create mazes on the hyperbolic plane?

graph-theory recreational-mathematics hyperbolic-geometry percolation asked Nov 16 '11 at 0:02
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16 votes

Is the Collatz conjecture in $\Sigma_1 / \Pi_1$?

logic recreational-mathematics computability asked Jan 18 '12 at 18:44
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What is the complexity of succinct (binary) Nurikabe?

computer-science puzzle np-complete computational-complexity asked Mar 30 '11 at 19:13
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How can I simulate limited AI vocabulary for a word game?

ai asked Jul 18 '12 at 6:47
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What is the complexity of (possibly succinct) Nurikabe?

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What's the probability that a sum of dice is prime?

probability number-theory prime-numbers recreational-mathematics dice asked Sep 21 '10 at 22:36
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9 votes

In EDH/Commander, what is the 'color identity' of a double-faced card?

magic-the-gathering mtg-commander asked Jan 23 '12 at 18:02
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7 votes

What does Martin's Maximum imply for $P(\mathbb{R})$?

set-theory cardinals forcing asked Feb 9 '11 at 1:22
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Top Answers
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The Mathematics of Tetris
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In the history of mathematics, has there ever been a mistake?
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Does newer card text on a Magic: The Gathering card override the old wording?
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A (probably trivial) Induction Problem: $\sum_2^nk^{-2}\lt1$
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Which is bigger?
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Why can ALL quadratic equations be solved by the quadratic formula?
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Multiple-choice question about the probability of a random answer to itself being correct
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Why does the Fibonacci Series start with 0, 1?
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If $a^3 b = ba^3$ and if $ a $ has order 7, show that $ab = ba$
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Why is it harder to prove which integers are sums of three squares rather than sums of two squares or four squares?
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Could G. H. Hardy make a product of two primes so big he couldn't find out which?
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Accidents of small $n$
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How can we show that an abelian group of order <1024 has a set of generators of cardinality <10
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Why is Bazaar of Baghdad supposedly such a good card?
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Sine Approximation of Bhaskara
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Integer multiplication when one integer is fixed
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Is there a statement whose undecidability is undecidable?
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$f(x+1)=f(x)+1$ and $f(x^2)=f(x)^2$
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Origin of the dot and cross product?
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An interesting sum to infinity
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Second part of the factorial sum divisibility question
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What happens when I copy Precursor Golem with Rite of Replication?
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What is special about $2^{32}/\phi$ in cryptography?
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Why don't more games use vector art?
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Is it better to hard code data or find an algorithm?
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Intuitive understanding of why the sum of nth roots of unity is $0$
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Rule of thumb to know if a problem could be NP-complete
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Why is Peano arithmetic undecidable?
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Golden Number Theory
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Combining Two 3D Rotations
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