Loaded Questions 1/10/22 - Math
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1. Which is greater: 22/7 or pi? Proofs of determining this has been calculated since antiquity.
2. What Greek letter is used for the population standard deviation?
3. If base 2 is binary and base 3 is ternary, what is base 6?
4. While the Mandelbrot set is the most famous fractal, the second-most famous might be a triangular "snowflake" named for what Swedish mathematician?
5. What calculus process often employs the terms "du" and "dv"?
6. In geometry, what game shares its name with the locus of a point on a plane curve that rolls without slipping along another fixed plane curve?
7. In mathematics, the word "discrete" is typically used to contrast with what other word?
8. Conic sections are basically formed with the combination of a point (focus) and a line, called what?
9. How many square faces are on a four-dimensional hypercube?
10. The symbol ‰ is used to represent what concept?
11. The infinite hotel is a thought experiment created by what German mathematician who proposed a list of 23 problems at a 1900 math conference, the first of which was the continuum hypothesis? His most famous photo features him wearing a straw hat.
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1. 22/7
2. Sigma / σ
3. Senary (or heximal/seximal)
4. Helge von Koch
5. Integration by parts
6. Roulette
7. Continuous
8. Directrix
9. 24
10. Per mille (parts per thousand)
11. David Hilbert