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I'm a highly qualified mathematician, AMA
phflack:
--- Quote from: Ipquarx on August 08, 2017, 06:09:26 PM ---what is the smallest positive integer solution to the equation:
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you are the worst
I may have spent 15 minutes or so looking over that
it gets pretty messy
Maxwell.:
--- Quote from: phflack on August 08, 2017, 07:55:48 PM ---you are the worst
I may have spent 15 minutes or so looking over that
it gets pretty messy
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I'm pretty sure the answer to that comic is 1.4 ohms
Ipquarx:
--- Quote from: phflack on August 08, 2017, 07:55:48 PM ---you are the worst
I may have spent 15 minutes or so looking over that
it gets pretty messy
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"pretty messy" is an understatement, if you want to see how it's actually done, give this a read, it's quite interesting https://www.quora.com/How-do-you-find-the-integer-solutions-to-frac-x-y+z-+-frac-y-z+x-+-frac-z-x+y-4/answer/Alon-Amit
Satan From Wreck-It-Ralph:
1 + 1 =
Conan:
--- Quote from: phflack on August 08, 2017, 05:51:53 PM ---pretty sure I saw similar things in middle/highschool
(and it can be done in 7 races, good luck figuring out how c:)
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see i was thinking 7 races but i wasnt sure how to handle the case of getting second and third place if both are in race 1. hmm.