calculus

What is the difference between the minimum value and the lower bound of a function? To me, it seems that they are the same.

2024 Mar 20

What is the difference between minimum and infimum?

What is the difference between minimum and infimum? I have a great confusion about this.

2025 Oct 03

Minimum Perimeter of a triangle

I have been playing the app Euclidea, I have been doing quite well but this one has me stumped. "Construct a triangle whose perimeter is the minimum possible whose

2025 Dec 11

Finding the maximum/minimum of a modulo function

@lonestudent It really isn''t that simple, y doesn''t have a tangible value, only a range of possible values it could be. An easy counter-example to your claim is x having the

2025 Sep 30

Minimum peaches in the "5 Monkeys and 1 Remainder" recursive

This process repeats for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th monkeys. Every time, they divide the current pile by 5, eat the single remainder, and take a $frac {1} {5}$ share. What is the

2025 Jan 29

Finding minimum using Lagrange multipliers

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2026 Jan 29

Must a minimum weight spanning tree for a graph contain the

Currently learning about spanning trees and using Kruskal''s algorithm and I was wondering whether a minimum weight spanning tree of a weighted graph must contain one of

2024 Feb 18

Which cut does "minimum cut" refer to?

Alternatively, to avoid ambiguity, reserve the term " minimum cut " for flow networks, and use precise terms like minimum edge cut, minimum cutset, minimal edge cut

2024 Mar 19

What are the common abbreviation for minimum in equations?

I''m searching for some symbol representing minimum that is commonly used in math equations.

2025 Aug 10

combinatorics

In this way, you have to generate only a small fraction of all the codewords to find the minimum distance, and the idea can be generalized to any linear code. The first step then is to find a

2025 Sep 23

View/Download What is the minimum size of a solar panel [PDF]

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