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Eric Towers

Oklahoma

Significant experience in math, physics, computer science, statistics, Mathematica, C/C++/VB programming, DBMA (mostly MySQL), network design/implementation/security. I read a lot too.

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What's the point in being a "skeptical" learner
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135
Why would a country make a declaration of war instead of just invading?
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119
Compiling an application for use in highly radioactive environments
stackoverflow.com

113
Why is it called "antilog" or "anti-logarithm" rather than exponentiation?
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75
Why would breathing pure oxygen be a bad idea?
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72
Why would a NES game use an undocumented 1-byte or 2-byte NOP in production?
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69
Why is radian so common in maths?
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60
How to deal with IT help desk that does not acknowledge requests for help?
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46
Examples of prime ideals that are not maximal
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45
Could astronauts find their bearings in the Universe after being transported 6 gigalightyears from Earth?
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45
when can we interchange integration and differentiation
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42
Why can't the second fundamental theorem of calculus be proved in just two lines?
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39
How to find the value of an unknown exponent?
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38
Intuition behind the paradox of instantaneous heat propagation
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38
If Luke Skywalker didn’t want to be found, why did he leave a map?
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37
Intuition for why the difference between $\frac{2x^2-x}{x^2-x+1}$ and $\frac{x-2}{x^2-x+1}$ is a constant?
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36
Why does cancelling change this equation?
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36
Why doesn't Mathematica abort evaluation when I tell it to?
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35
How was the area formula for a circle ($A = \pi r^2$) derived before the introduction of calculus?
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32
What does infinity in complex analysis even mean?
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31
What is the closed form of this sum?
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30
Huge bug involving MultinormalDistribution?
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30
Which version of the Pigeonhole principle is correct? One is far stronger than the other
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28
In Back to the Future, how did Marty get the timing right with the lightning strike?
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27
How can I convert an integer to float with rounding towards zero?
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27
Why do Jedi use lightsabers?
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27
Has there ever been an application of dividing by $0$?
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26
How many points are needed to uniquely define an ellipse?
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25
Sequence that is neither increasing, nor decreasing, yet converges to 1
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25
Does knight behave like a king in his infinite odyssey?
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