In mathematics, big O notation describes the limiting behavior of a function when the argument tends towards a particular value or infinity, usually in terms of simpler functions. It is a member of a larger family of notations that is called Landau notation, Bachmann–Landau notation (after Edmund Landau and Paul Bachmann), or asymptotic notation. In computer science, big O notation is used to classify algorithms by how they respond (e.g., in their processing time or working space requirements) to changes in input size. In analytic number theory, it is used to estimate the "error commi...
The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle (Gruber, Krauss and others), loosely based on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975 , . It became famous as a question from a reader's letter quoted in Marilyn vos Savant's "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade magazine in 1990 :
Vos Savant's response was that the contestant should switch to the other door.
The argument relies on assumptions, explicit in exten...
A polynomial map is equal to another polynomial map iff they take on the same values at each point. So this is different from formal polynomials. So since in $\Bbb{Z}_p$, $x^{p-1} = 1$ for all $x \neq 0$, and is $0$ on $0$, we have that there are a finite number of polynomial maps in $\Bbb{Z}_...
HardOCP has an image with an equation which apparently draws the Batman logo. Is this for real?
