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00:01
You're right, as we said, but you need to say “likewise for $b$”.
OK OK
And the sum of positive and nonnegative is positive. Hard to know how much to say without knowing the level of the course.
Or the level of you and your friend.
Howdy @Thor
hi Ted
D2L is horrible, and I expect Canvas is going to take over
Or has already. The place I teach at is just behind the times. Massive bureaucracy.
It's interesting to me that students at large universities complain about a bloated administration and then use community colleges as examples of institutions that don't need as many levels of administration yet manage to get things done. What students fail to realize is that community colleges don't all operate independently.
00:22
Hi
00:33
Anyone want to take a look at a question I'm working on and give opinions?
Unless you link to the question, we can't answer that.
Oh yeah lol. It's this one
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4094288/does-a-closed-curve-exist-for-which-a-square-cannot-intersect-it-8-or-more-times/4116607#4116607
Oh, I already linked that in here yesterday. I do not have the fortitude to read — let alone think about — an answer that goes on for what feels like ten pages. Sorry.
I'm sure you've spent dozens of hours working on it, and good for you for that!!
00:42
Oh, yeah I spent most of yesterday I suppose.
It seemed at first like the kind of thing that could be solved in a day.
I do not have that impression anymore.
I think I believe that 8 is the minimum. Because the game allows rescaling the square to force intersections of each of its edges with the curve, then the minimum each edge will intersect is 2 when I make the square transverse to the curve (i.e., not intersecting tangentially). So that makes 8. I'm satisfied.
Unless I misunderstand the rules of the game, I think that's the proof.
That only works if the curve is convex.
Nope, not at all.
So are there some standard results of what you get when you take $\Pi_i^{n!} \sigma_i$ for $\sigma_i \in S_n$? I think order will matter for $n > 3$ so maybe something interesting happens when we pick some "natural" order on permutations?
I'm just using transversality (non-tangential intersection) plus obligation for each edge to intersect the curve.
00:45
It's not necessary for the edge to intersect twice. it's possible to have the edge intersect only zero or one times.
There is no natural order, @Big. You can declare one arbitrarily, I suppose. I don't understand your question. You pick $n$ distinct elements of $S_n$? Any $n$ in any order?
In the case of one, the curve can cross in one edge and then out the other.
@Jade That is not the rules. If so, the answer is 0.
@TedShifrin My bad, meant all of them
@ted
Oops
00:47
@Big So you can cancel out the elements of orders >2 if you want to, or you can try for as big a mess as you hope to get.
The rules are stated so that the square is chosen second
The person choosing the square is meant to maximize the intersections
@TedShifrin No, I hope to get something nice, but I fear I get a mess
hope and fear I guess are dual
So obviously choosing the square so that each edge intersects the curve nontangentially is the game plan, not matter what curve you draw. This is why I didn't bother any further with the question. I find it either obvious or ill-posed.
Choosing the square is the hard part though?
@Big What is "something nice"? You want the shortest possible simplified word(s)?
00:50
nah, I want to know if you could somehow pick orderings that cancel out to a single transposition/the identity
I guess equivalently that is what I want
I don't see why, @Jade. I can make it tiny (no intersections) or make it huge (no intersections). In between, most configurations will be transverse intersections with all the edges.
but specifically those 2 so not just it being shortest will be the best I think
Hmm, so you want to pair up most $k$-cycles ($k>2$) with their inverses, but leave a few out to try to cancel products of $2$-cycles.
Have you played with actual examples with $S_3$ or $S_4$?
yeah in a way
You need all four edges to be transverse simultaneously. It's not obvious how to force that to happen. It's not as simple as picking a square and then linearly scaling it up.
00:53
and I was just looking at some stuff with $S_3$, but I'll take a while
I was mostly wondering if there were obvious results I was forgetting
Like I remembered there were some idempotents you got in similar ways in knot theory, so maybe this happened for $S_n$
You can rotate the square, translate it, and resize it. As long as the curve is piecewise-smooth (and not a wild continuous space-filling curve), I believe I am correct.
I'm not going to think further about either of these questions. I'm out.
take care
Please upvote. Important post from a moderator, XanderHenderson.
Enforcement of Quality Standards.
01:10
@vitamind sounds good!
will be interesting to see who they go after first
I'm the one commenting for the OP to show his work and say where he's stuck, maybe a hint, no more.
01:27
i like low quality posts. i like giving the answer to a freshman calculus question that someone spent longer mathjaxing than thinking about. it's how i got fifty thousand internet points.
You shall be shackled and punished with gruel.
ted is just envious of my fifty thousand internet points.
did i say fifty? i meant six.
with six you arent trusted
You need 25 to be a trusted responsible bulwark and bastion for the site
i'm more of a bastion than all of them will ever be.
i just want the t-shirt & mug
01:32
bulwark, too.
you are a bit of a bastion
laughed out loud.
i think mse should commission a klein like object with covid like things sticking out. get get one when you hit some number of points.
Ion … ard … a few typing fingers off.
Would a porcupine do?
only if it has covid
01:36
the shirt ought to say 'ask me how to do your homework.'
alternatively, 'ask me about ted shifrin's differential geometry book'
i miss going to cafes.
This is a counter example to the transversality argument by the way.
https://i.sstatic.net/260eX.png
You can get eight intersections on a square, but it's impossible to do it with two on each edge. The problem is nontrivial.
one time in law school i went to a cafe and right behind me in line i heard two very distinctive voices, it was NPR's the car guys. i went back a little over a year ago and the cafe had closed. it's impossible for anybody other than starbucks to afford cafe rents in cambridge, MA anymore.
So I don't get to move the square however I want, then. As I said, I don’t get the rules. Annoying.
You can move the square however you want.
Then that is not a counterexample.
01:44
There is a youtuber called Louis Rossman that repairs macbooks and he has a whole series looking at new york real estate
Go ahead, draw a square on that crescent. Any angle, any size. If you can get two intersections on every edge, I'll eat my hat.
apparently a Popeyes rented an eggregiously expensive place he looked at and he's convinced it can't be profitable
there's stuff like that i saw in long beach, pre-pandemic, that didn't make any sense.
Happy hat eating.
i've often thought that every popeyes should have a cannon on the roof that chooses a random direction and angle every couple of minutes and fires off a piece of chicken. that's how i'd market the business.
01:46
Or a canon?
Paging Bach.
would the distance be constant?
disregarding wind and height and stuff
@TedShifrin I'll wait for your drawing.
that's exactly the kind of thing that the customer base would congregate around the store to find out.
would probably be good publicity
you would get people outraged
i would get stuff from popeyes when i lived in oakland. here there is roscoe's house of chicken and waffles, so i have not attended popeyes in some time.
01:48
like the guys at burger king
I have never attended Popeyes or Chipotle
I hear people my age are supposed to have their Chipotle order ready for when people bring it up in conversation
chipotle is pretty good. there was one in iowa city that i never attended because they had a local analogue of the same type of thing, pancheros, across the street. i went there instead.
i lived on chipotle in law school, which by the way is another business that could not afford to continue operating in harvard square.
pancheros is the most mexican non-mexican thing I have ever heard
it's very good ngl
my favorite mexican place is cactus taqueria, right next to the rockridge bart station in oakland. they have other locations. the quality has gone down somewhat over the years but it is still good.
One of my favorite tacos is a night place that opens near the curve two blocks from my house
it gets full of taxi drivers parked on the sidewalk blocking half the street
that's how you know it's good
chipotle have great bacteria.
cactus have tiny soccer mom burritos.
"organic"
02:03
how known is it that chipotles are dried smoked jalapeños
in the albany berkeley area? toddlers know that.
they compare aromas and fight over how sustainably sourced they are
just kidding. i am in a foul mood today.
I actually believed you
If you find that curve too easy, you can stretch it out to make it harder. One of the cases we looked at was this one.
https://i.sstatic.net/jINLF.png
This one shows how to get eight intersections, but it only does it by having four on just one edge.
02:10
what kind of curve is that?
Just some kind of weird crescent. It was designed to attempt to minimize the number of crossings any square can have
There's a question on Math.SE asking if there exists a closed curve such that no square intersects it eight or more times
Some people were trying to make counter examples. None of the attempts worked, and I think there aren't any counter examples, but the proof is very hard, if it is true.
Some of the counter examples, like this one, are very good at showing why the problem is hard
So it doesn't exist?
The counter example curve? We don't know. I think it doesn't exist, but I'm not entirely sure
It's comparable in difficulty to the inscribed square problem, which is still open
I figured it would be easier than inscribed square, but after having tried it and seen their differences, I'm not sure.
The question on Math.SE doesn't have any affirmative answer yet. I have a partial answer solving a bunch of subcases, but the general problem is really hard.
The crescent up there, with the square through it, shows a really novel configuration to produce a square giving eight intersections. I'm pretty sure that, for the crescent curve at least, that sort of configuration is the only way to get eight crossings. It's not the kind of thing you would think of immediately.
oh, the concavity shows why the inscribed square problem doesn't imply this one?
Yes exactly
That was part of my original answer actualy
Someone suggested that inscribed square would solve this, but that's not necessarily true, since we can have weird concavity
Inscribed square does solve the convex subcase really easily, though.
02:20
cool
Yeah it's pretty neat. It's very nice, I think, when something you think will be easy ends up being really hard.
Since that improves your intuition
soccer mom burritos, laughed out loud again.
the burrito mejor used to be very large, but they have cut it down.
02:40
picantes used to be the goto, but they started downsizing their tasty but pricey burritos and they stopped the curbside pickup. gordos was never a fave, but when the opened online ordering i warmed to them. and they are ginormous. my fave that i am aware of in the area for burritos is sinaloa on telegraph in berkeley
just checking that the organ helicopter is not nearby.
a lot of people in my school swore by gordos and another one in that area. i think they were swayed by a variety of salsas, which to me is gimmicky.
i had a cactus burrito as my friday treat almost every week from 1998 to 2007
i used to bring the kids there. but they are not big enough for my 6'3" 17yo.
the burrito mejor used to be huge, but they did cut it down. they also reduced what they put on it. i wonder if it was a change in management or ownership.
dunno. its gordos for the foreseable.
no wait
there is talaveras. they are awesome.
just not as convenient for ordering.
what was i thinking.
and equidistant to us.
i miss solano ave. if i could drag-drop one street into long beach it might be solano.
02:46
their chimichangas are incredible
one place i liked that has gone was liu's kitchen
and there was an iranian run place on solano across from colusa (i think, if i recall correctly)
they did great breakfasts
salmon omelette with a chilled mimosa
hard to believe i just polished off 0.5lb fresh salmon and 3 spuds worth of mash
the temptation to hit the kona is strong but i need to do some thinking work.
and now i'm hungry again.
software development is, for the most part, an incredible drudge.
i should not complain, i have a nice setup at the moment. and my customer likes our stuff.
rare to have an eda customer say that, i am proud to say.
@TedShifrin ex 1.1.2. I think
before you click through that looks as if it's written on a refrigerator.
i was mildly disappointed to see it was a clipboard and paper setup.
02:53
is $v$ a constant?
hardly in a helix. Maybe $vt$?
I tried to hold my hands steady, but im v shaky
Yeah v is the derivative of vt wrt t
sry, really slow. part of my aging process.
why are you reparameterising the curve?
Np im reaally slow at this stuff
Because it was the excercise
my handwriting is far worse. what is the goal, where are we going. don't make me click through to ted's book. i understand he is paid exorbitant royalties every time somebody does that.
i see. mechanics.
02:56
Sorry leslie, i will leave you hanging. My lunch is over. Maybe I will rememver to tell you tonight :)
twist and frenetic ferret curves.
life would be much simpler if we just outlawed any rotational acceleration.
TNB sounds like a crude description of something.
@Andrew That is totally illegible.
Hey, I don
Hey, I don't have any reputation, so I was wondering if anyone could direct me to more information about the first answer in the following post math.stackexchange.com/questions/2281246/…
More specifically, I was wondering if anyone has any information about (1 + D)^-1, and if there's a generalization like (1 + D)^r, possibly using Newton's general binomial theorem
i have no idea, sry.
03:12
it isn't even clear to me what D is. the operations look familiar. rota had some good papers on the calculus of finite differences but this seems continuous. somehow.
writing $\mathrm{d}t$ before the integrand will never not seem wrong to me.
kevin there is a notion of a continuous functional calculus which can be applied to sufficiently nice operators (bounded and self adjoint is ideal, normal is OK, unbounded is fine but requires a lot of work). you can write out integral expressions for the functions of the operators and even use software to approximate them.
anything called D might be unbounded, which makes me nervous.
$D$ is the usual $d/dx$, of course.
okay yeah, unbounded. and away we go.
But, this is formal Taylor expansions. Assume real analytic functions.
03:44
ah, I finally understood limit proofs
why in Ellipse $h^2-ab<0$ ?
If the general equation is $ax^2+by^2+2hxy+2gx+2fy+c=0$
$ax^2+2x(hy+g)+(by^2+2fy+c)=0$
Then, it has two roots for any y=k
Therefore, delta>0
4$(hy+g)^2-4a(by^2+2fy+c)$>0
$4y^2(h^2-ab)+By + C $>0
delta>0 and $h^2-ab>0$ ?
So, $h^2>ab$
x^2 + 3.
@KevinZheng Sometimes yes, but also your question is complicated. If the exponent r is fractional, there's not always a well defined meaning for a fractional exponent of an operator. In the case r is an integer however, then yes the standard binomial theorem applies, when defined
@leslietownes you got $h^2-ab<0$
I want to know how?
yes, x^2 + 3 is under control now
03:45
i did. i'm regretting it, but i did get that.
i erased any geometry from my mind, and all was fine
if the discriminant of that (regarded as a quadratic in x) is a polynomial in y with a positive coefficient of y^2, the real square root in which it appears will be defined and produce solutions for an unbounded set of y. that's not what happens with an ellipse.
hence, i think, my desire for a < instead of an >
@leslietownes Common..didn't we did same thing?
he called you a commoner!
there were a few hours this morning where i thought we were in the same page. then i had some phone calls with some annoying attorneys and i don't remember where we left off.
03:49
@shintuku hey what's commoner?
@leslietownes okok
a person who has rights over another's land, and thus, makes said object of alienated rights suffer greatly from the tragedy of commons
i'm not a commoner, i'm royalty.
what is wrong with a commoner?
nothing, they are the vanguard of true, radical change. bless the commoner, but not the one with implicit rights over the commons, the other one
"bless" here, is, of course, a figure of speech
I guess it's 9:30 pm there now ?
03:54
we have some weird 15 minute difference. it is 8:54 PT.
i don't think it's 9:30 anywhere.
there are countries that offset standard time zones by 30 minutes but i do not live in one of them.
i guess it is for people working at CERN
@leslietownes Oh alright , to be exact it's 9:24 here.
so there is a 30 minute difference. fascinating.
@Avra stackedit.io is nice to preview your mathjax
avra even an approximate version of your question would be appreciated.
03:57
Nepal has a 15min offset, India 30 min.
i forgot about that.
Hello. I have simple question about algebraic simplification of the following quantity:

$\frac{4n^2+4n+1}{4n^2+8n+4} < \frac{n}{n+1}$

The final answer I got is
$1<0$

But the book solution is

$n+1 < 0$

I am no sure how the quanity $n+1 < 0$ was got!
$1<0$ is false
How did the order creep into the setup?
the quantity is just a quantity, you can divide it using known methods for division by polynomials. the inequality is something else.
copper.hat has asked the question more pointedly.
oh i think i was responding to an unmodified version of something that has been edited. let me think.
04:00
huh, wolframalpha agrees with you, there's no solution
are there any other restrictions? @Avra
@leslietownes. Sorry. I edited it.
according to wolframalpha, $1<0$ should be fine if there is no other restriction
@shintuku. There is no solution, but I am asking about the final form, how the book got $n+1 <0$ please?
I get $n+1 <0$. You just need to be more careful.
@copper.hat. Thanks. I will double check again.
04:04
There is no magic, just multiplying & adding.
Note that $\frac{4n^2+4n+1}{4n^2+8n+4}= 1-\frac{4n+3}{4n^2+8n+4}$ and something similar for the rhs.
$n+1<0$ iff $n \neq -1$
That is not true.
$n=1$
@copper.hat.

This is how I did it,

$\frac{4n^2+4n+1}{4(n+1)^2} < \frac{n}{(n+1)}$
$\frac{4n^2+4n+1}{4(n+1)} < n$
$4n^2+4n+1< n(4(n+1)) $
$1< 0 $
How did you even do the first step???
Why did you decide that $(n+1)$ is not negative???
You need to be careful.
multiply both sides by $(n+1)$ given that $n \in mathbb{Z}$
04:13
if $-5 < -1$ is $5 < 1$?
$n$ is only positive integers $(1,2,3, \cdots, n)$
ah, there you go
Why, was that part of the problem statement?
@copper.hat. Yeah!
@copper.hat the original statement, if true, implies $\frac{n}{n+1}$ is undefined if $n = -1$
04:15
I did not see that above.
@copper.hat. I apologize.
Then the book solution $n+1 <0$ makes no sense.
Which is true for any $n$ for which the equation makes sense.
$1 < 0$ is a nonsequitur if $n$ is in the natural numbers, but not if it is unrestricted
@copper.hat. So my solution is true $1<0$?
I would not write it like that, I would say there are no solutions satisfying $n \ge 1$.
Or $n >1$.
04:21
That the original equation implies $1 < 0$ is true if $n \in \mathbb{R}$
but the original equation does not imply $1 < 0$ if $n \in \mathbb{N}$
@leslietownes. @copper.hat. @shintuku Thank you.
You can write the equation as $1 - {4n+3 \over 4 (n+1)^2} < 1 - {1 \over n+1}$. THis is equivalent to ${4n+3 \over 4 (n+1)^2} > {1 \over n+1}$. Multiplying both sides by $(n+1)^2$ (which is positive for $n \neq -1$) we get $4n+3 > 4(n+1)$ which reduces to $0 > 1$.
04:46
66÷12÷6
How to solve this?
Which divides which
Please help..
parentheses, please.
that's the kind of thing that will go viral on social media.
The question doesn't have one..
just assume ÷ is commutative
if an operation BLERP is associative, which division is not, it is considered okay to write a BLERP b BLERP c.
So what should be the next step?
04:48
absent associativity, parentheses are needed.
It is not there in the original question what do I do..??
the expression has no meaning
ask for a better question. (66/12)/6 and 66/(12/6) are different things. the question is not well posed.
you could go viral on twitter with it.
I am thinking of buying a few volumes of Landau and Lifshitz' books on theoretical physics. Does anyone here know if the volumes build on each other or are they relatively self-contained (unfortunately, the topics of interest are not in order in their series!)?
@shintuku What does @shintuku with this?
Please explain this to me..
04:51
i was joking about the commutativity, but that expression has no determinate meaning
as pointed out by leslie
what's the context?
quin, i do not. just tossing that in there so you know you are not being ignored.
i thought you had accidentally posted here, realised that this was maths not physics and gone elsewhere...
i always experiment with copyright infringement before buying volumes of anything. i don't suggest doing that.
cube root of (46656)÷square toot of(144)÷square root of (36)
that is the whole question..
Maybe it could revolve around some assumption
when x is not associative, as division is not, a x b x c has no meaning.
you might as well ask for 'the division of all the numbers on the chalkboard.'
04:54
@RajorshiKoyal is it a math book?
or what sort of book/
maybe we can get the meaning from the context
No from my study material
Lol, no, I'm partial to math, so I post here. Just throwing it out there in case anyone knew. Googling around for such things didn't reveal anything. Yeah, I think I might not infringe a bit :P
No book a handout
sometimes people do adopt a left to right convnetion or something else.
yeah, that division question is nonsense as far as i can tell
04:55
ok.. So I guess it will be a left to right convention
but this is higher order stuff than the basic premise which is that if you don't tell me whether to to (a x b) x c or a x (b x c) i don't know what to do.
if you have a twitter account, create a poll and have your followers vote on the outcome. that is how most things are decided these days. [i am joking, please do not do this]
definitely need to assume a convention. but if someone will correct it, make sure to write both and explain why you wrote both possibilities
if 66÷12÷6 means (66/12)/6, then blablabla. if 66÷12÷6 means 66/(12/6), then blablabla
that seems like the only opportunity.
04:59
i'm an econ student and i've done this multiple times on my homework sunglasses
it is also the lawyerly response.
Where formula (3) is $\ln z = \ln |z| + i \text{ Arg } z \pm 2n\pi i$

I can't understand what would happen if, say for $n=0$, we include negative real axis as well? I mean, derivative is obtained to be $1/z$ even at negative real axis, hence in particular it is continuous there, right?
@leslietownes The answer reads 0.5
How would that happen?
i'm beginning to wonder whether $\div$ means something completely new.
05:01
i don't mean to be sarcastic; any way i can think of interpreting that expression, which i think we agree is not unambiguous, does not lead to 0.5.
is it a programming language question?
@Silent If you used the integral formula for the log and integrated to the negative real axis via two different paths (ccw vs. cw) you would get different answers
^Reminds me of @BalarkaSen
05:07
clank
Please check problem 24 and problem 30..
did i miss some big room arrangement?
can i dump my problems here?
I am not dumping they are tricky indeed.
Please understnad.
i need parentheses to make sense of $\div$.
ok try 30 once may be I am wrong..
Please check this problem out
05:18
whoever is posing these has a grudge against parentheses
i'm saving up my internet bits so i have some if it breaks again in the morning.
smart, huh!
does anyone here know about the frobenius method
for DEs?
05:32
@RajorshiKoyal we can safely say none of these
only the application
@RajorshiKoyal we can safely say that neither of the two possible meanings result in either 0.5 or 0.51
it is just matching Taylor series coefficients to get a difference equation.
05:33
for problem 30, there's no such ambiguity, so you should be able to find the proper solution no problem
In mathematics, the method of Frobenius, named after Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, is a way to find an infinite series solution for a second-order ordinary differential equation of the form z 2 u ″ + p ( z ) z u ′ + q ( z ) u = 0 {\displaystyle z^{2}u''+p(z)zu'+q(z)u=0} with u...
Those are not plus signs divisions only
It was misprinted
can you give me the possible interpretations of the question?
with what we've shown up to now, you should be able to tell how many different ways there are to interpret question 30
you should also be able to list the proper answer to each interpretation, and see if any of the multiple choices match it
what is question 30? the picture is a bit blurry
is it $175616+56^3+8=?^2+7$?
No no those are divisions @Euler2 I am posting a fresh question
Please ignore that
05:46
jeez
06:35
there is $\longrightarrow$, is there a long \mapsto somewhere?
Oh, let me see
wait
$\longmapsto$
$\mapsto$
yeah, I guess that is a long mapsto
\longmapsto = $\longmapsto$
thanks!
@shintuku When you want to find LaTeX characters, try Detexify
06:49
an excellent resource, thanks!
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