Will the real TeeEm please stand up!

do 15 and 6 share a common power? on reflection that is perhaps a useless question....

clearly they do ...

you have to move away from whole numbers

Is it that obvious?

not at all...

it is a very hard AS question
(*****) in my scale.

Believe it or not there are some people here that find these questions too easy (because of their preparation for STEP/AEA/BMO) so I put the "extras" just for them.

Try it tomorrow when you are fresh

I will save it for saturday when I can sit down and do it properly.....will the solution be up by then? to think that by the end of the year I need to be finding this Q easy.....

not at all...

it is a very hard AS question
(*****) in my scale.

Believe it or not there are some people here that find these questions too easy (because of their preparation for STEP/AEA/BMO) so I put the "extras" just for them.

Try it tomorrow when you are fresh

Lol the extra is easier than the normal one

27 days to A level results

Question for Friday 17/07/15
AS Maths Upwards
(a few messy surd questions coming up as I wrote 4 today)

and for those who want that little bit extra, a mathematical novelty
....
maybe not quite a question as it is very hard to see what to do, so maybe a bit of research to complete this proof

l acknowledge that when I awaken I shall firmly regret this decision. However, drunk me shall accept this next challenge. An inebriated mathematician is truly useful/incompetent.

morning edit: I don't recall typing this or seeing this question but as a mark of responsibility I shan't delete this post..for now.

This is the general structure

assume that e = p/q

p/q = 1 + 1 +1/2! + 1/3! + 4! + 1/q! + 1/(q+1)! +...

multiply by q!

move some terms on the left

LHS is a positive integer

so RHS is a positive integer

and somehow via inequalities and reasoning (usally found in mathematical analysis) the RHS is less than 1

so we found a positive integer less than 1

Contradiction

there is a way to do it with floorbased functions.


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I've noticed this thread has 40 pages. Sorry but what exactly is the purpose of this thread? I think we've established you're not Arsey

it is my office

I see. So this is the place we come for your help?

there are several proofs

my question says "prove by contradiction"

This way is by contradiction. Im on holiday but ikl see if i can write it up later. It is beauftiful it was in a previous step question.


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No, but this is the thread on the background of my computer, when I am doing work in my actual office (except for another 2 weeks or so as I am on my holiday home in Greece).

Where in Greece out of curiosity?

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