r/maths • • Jun 11 '23

Help with this girls homework because her teacher told her nothing

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What is the answers?


r/maths • • Oct 06 '23

What is this

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What type of maths is this so i can learn it and solve this


r/maths • • Jul 06 '24

Help: University/College Maths help

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r/maths • • Sep 08 '26

💬 Math Discussions Navier Stokes solved by AI

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r/maths • • Dec 03 '24

Help: General Is it true?

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r/maths • • Oct 20 '25

💬 Math Discussions What’s the last known number?

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Yes, numbers are so called “infinite” to our knowledge but it’s not like you can just continuously count forever, there’s got be point where we run out of named numbers


r/maths • • Jun 25 '25

💬 Math Discussions How does this percentage work?

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So, a £2 item has been raised to £3, which is a 50% increase. I get three items, this equals £9. Before this increase, it would come to £6. My problem, this would mean that it would be a 33% increase, not 50%. Explain?


r/maths • • Mar 10 '25

Help: General How does 10 - 10 x 10 + 10 = -80?

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edit: question answered, thank you!

edit 2: guys please. My question has been answered 20 times already

When I first solved it I did v

10 + 10 = 20

20 - 10 = 10

10 x 10 = 100

When I use BIDMAS

10 x 10 = 100

100 + 10 = 110

110 - 10 = 100

I can’t figure out how the number becomes a negative. Theres no division involved. I’m r/confidentlyincorrect about the answer being 100. But even the calculator proves me wrong.

I’ve tried googling how to work it out but all the results are either people saying the answer is 10 or 90 or people who know the answer is -80 laughing at those that dont.


r/maths • • Sep 14 '23

Someone do question c I'm literally gonna kms from this

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r/maths • • Jan 03 '24

Help: University/College How many dots within the circle?

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A circle of diameter ‘d’ is randomly placed on a square grid points of spacing ‘a’. The points within the circle are then counted.

For the general case what is the:

a) average number of points within the circle b) maximum number number of points within the circle c) the minimum number of points within the circle

This is not homework, its Age of Empires 2 maths. For a sense of scale 0 < d < 10*a.


r/maths • • Aug 16 '24

Help: General Was doing some integrals for fun and came across this, why?

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r/maths • • Jul 18 '25

💬 Math Discussions Is the PEDMAS/PEMDAS rule made up or can be proved mathematically and logically?

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so we know according to PEDMAS or PEMDAS or whatever we go left to right and if see multiplication or division first then we do it and then only we do addition or subtraction also left to right.

but is it just a made up rule that is agreed by all mathematicians to ensure consistency in all of maths?

can it be proved mathematically that it is the only possible rule for doing correct maths without parenthesis? and then again what is correct maths in the first place?

example: 10+5×6

if we do multiplication first then: 10+30 = 40

but if we do addition first then: 15x6 = 90

how do we know what is the correct answer?

i get it that a lot of theorems and conventions such as distributivity depend on PEDMAS or PEMDAS but we can replace them with a new one if we don't use PEDMAS or PEMDAS.

i mean we can't make 2+2=5 because it is 4. so we can prove it. but won't changing PEDMAS break maths? also when was this rule formalized can you give me some history about it?

and why did we agree to PEDMAS why not the opposite like PEASDM?


r/maths • • 13d ago

❓ General Math Help Why is PEMDAS a thing?

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What makes it so that parentheses () come before Exponents, and those prefice multiplication and division, and those prefice addition and substraction? Who decided that? Is there a reason to it? Or did someone decide, “this is how we will do math”?


r/maths • • Feb 24 '24

Help: General Why do people love using the Pythagorean Theorem so much if the 2n, n^2 + 1 and n^2 - 1 one is so much better?

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I learned it in school and it's just so much more helpful, given than you only need to know one side.

Edit: Ok WOW tysm guys I DID not know all that 😀 One of my teachers showed it to us as a way to check your answer so we didn't waste time on checking And yeah I used it a lot and when everything worked out I was like 😮😮😮 why aren't people using this more 😅 I'm in 9th and I LOVE maths to the point where I've bought Silvanus Thompson's calc book so yeah thanks for everything in the comments guys I didn't really do much research about when and where it applies I'm gonna go and decimate my teacher with all this info now 😈


r/maths • • Jun 19 '25

💬 Math Discussions Is it possible to reach infinity in mathematics ?

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A friend of mine asked me this question and I didn't have the answer. First of all, if someone would've asked me what is the definition of infinity, I couldn't give them a proper answer. But overall I think it's an interesting question if there is an answer to it. I would personally think that it is not possible to reach it, but I don't have explanation to this answer.


r/maths • • Dec 11 '24

Discussion I discovered a math trick I think?

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Do 333

times 333

+1

then you have 110890

Keep dividing that number by 3

First you get 36963.3333 which i call a mirror number

then divide that by 3 again you get 12321.11111

Then divide keep dividing that by 3 and you get some really cool patterns.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cprW0jC3BKY


r/maths • • Jul 15 '23

Solve the problem 5

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r/maths • • Sep 28 '23

Absolutely bedazzled by this puzzle equation to find the human age of a 4.76 billion years old entity! Let’s see if anyone can solve it (g is a physics constant)

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r/maths • • Jun 03 '23

No idea where to begin to solve for t. I tried an got a fraction. Can you show me?

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Just trying to see hiw they worked it out.


r/maths • • Sep 05 '24

Help: 14 - 16 (GCSE) Yo I need help with this GCSE transition question.

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r/maths • • Sep 08 '26

💬 Math Discussions OpenAI says it cracked 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours

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BBC News - OpenAI says it cracked 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy7zygy3rl2o


r/maths • • Dec 13 '24

Discussion In physical world, all objects are 3D.

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r/maths • • 15d ago

💬 Math Discussions Mathematically, is a year ending in 3 early or mid-decade?

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We generally consider years ending in 4–6 to be mid-decade, but what about 3? Since a decade has ten years, wouldn't a symmetrical 3–4–3 split (early: 0–2, mid: 3–6, late: 7–9) make more mathematical sense?

  • Early: 0, 1, 2

  • Mid: 3, 4, 5, 6

  • Late: 7, 8, 9

or

  • Early: 0, 1, 2, 3

  • Mid: 4, 5, 6

  • Late: 7, 8, 9


r/maths • • Jul 06 '24

Discussion about 0/0

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why is it written as undefined, and not instead just 0?

for example, if we take 0/2, that’s the same as 2 * x = 0, where x is also 0.

so, if we have 0/0, surely it would be 0 * x = 0, where x is again, 0.

i’m sure that there’s a really simple and easy way to think about this that i just haven’t noticed yet, otherwise it would just be known as 0. so why isn’t it?