Vincenzo Oliva

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Did Roman unmarried men have a preferred hand and finger for wearing their seal ring?

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Why does the sum of the reciprocals of factorials converge to $e$?

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When and how was "bombax!" used?

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Did the Soviet Union hand over thousands of Jews to the Nazis in the spirit of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact?

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Why isn't $f(x) = x\cos\frac{\pi}{x}$ differentiable at $x=0$, and how do we foresee it?

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Proving algebraically $a^2+b^2\ge a^{\alpha}b^{2-\alpha}$ for $0\le\alpha\le2$ and $a,b\ge0$

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What makes pentane, hexane, heptane, and octane dangerous, while butane and nonane aren't?

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When is a bishop stronger than a rook?

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Is the palatalization of "d" between "a", "i" or "o" and "ie" or "iu" only a Medieval Latin phenomenon?

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Two (strictly related) proofs by induction of inequalities.

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Did Roman unmarried men have a preferred hand and finger for wearing their seal ring?

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How did the ancient Romans count with their fingers?

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"Oh no!" in Latin

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What should the corona virus be called in Latin?

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Product of cosines: $ \prod_{r=1}^{7} \cos \left(\frac{r\pi}{15}\right) $

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A limit without invoking L'Hopital: $\lim_{x \to 0} \frac{x \cos x - \sin x}{x^2}$

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Translation for tattoo

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Zero to the zero power – is $0^0=1$?

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Latin for "In war and in peace"

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Prove that the trigonometric equation has no solution

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How do you say this phrase in latin? Venisti, vedisti, you destroyed?

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How to say "We are waves of the same sea, leaves of the same tree, flowers of the same garden" in Latin?

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How would you translate “playing with prime numbers” into Latin?

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What should an epidemic be called in Latin?

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Are there native tongue-twisters in Latin?

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How to say that I have used up all of something?

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How to find this infinite summation: $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{(2n-1)^2}$?

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An example sentence for Latin pronunciation

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Origin of "lunatĭcus"

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Determining all the positive integers $n$ such that $n^4+n^3+n^2+n+1$ is a perfect square.

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Which of the numbers is larger: $7^{94}$ or $9^{91} $?

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How to speak a language with a third declension adjective?

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Compute $\prod\limits _{r=3 }^{\infty }{ \frac { { r }^{ 3 }-{ 8 } }{ { r }^{ 3 }+{ 8 } } } $

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Proof that the factorial is nonelementary

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Meaning of "Spiritus Libertatis"

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Is it "bene videtur" or "bonum videtur"? Adjective or adverb with verbs/copulae meaning "seem"

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Does the Riemann-Hypothesis imply the Twin-Prime-Conjecture?

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A question about numbers from Euclid's proof of infinitude of primes

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Qual è il significato di "prendersi di" in questo contesto?

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What was the population of the Roman Empire around 210 AD?

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