My friend's dad (who is an engineer) stated that the answer to this is 0. Following the logic that anything to the power of 0 is 1, I got the answer 4. My friend deferred to his dad's knowledge and tells me that I'm wrong, but I don't see how it can possibly be zero. What am I missing?11mo ⋅ lostllama2015 ⋅ r/askmath
What does this black square mean? Here it's used for a definition but later on it's used after a proof too.8mo ⋅ NikinhoRobo ⋅ r/askmath
Is this car park in Japan more space efficient, compared to strings with each having 2 even rows of mirroring parking spaces (Example 2x100)?9mo ⋅ Finkenn ⋅ r/askmath
This problem stumped the entire math department in my school. Anybody wanna take a shot?11mo ⋅ ConsistentBerry5850 ⋅ r/askmath
How do we find the area of the blue circle? All the circles have the same radius, 2cm.7mo ⋅ LearningAndLiving12 ⋅ r/askmath
I just saw this on Twitter it looks simple but what's the answer8mo ⋅ Spiritual-Cook-9268 ⋅ r/askmath
What would be the required change in the universe in order for pi to actually equal 3?7mo ⋅ FitzyFarseer ⋅ r/askmath
Isn't this unsolvable because we don't know the nature and distance of the light source?1mo ⋅ KaizenCyrus ⋅ r/askmath
Say we have a pen and a piece of paper with 9 evenly spaced dots (as shown). How do we draw 4 straight lines through the 9 dots, without ever lifting our pen off the page?8mo ⋅ pretty-cool-math ⋅ r/askmath
A proof of Euler's formula i accidentally discovered back in high school while playing with the integral of 1/(1+x^2) 🤔. Is this legit?9mo ⋅ goddess_steffi_graf ⋅ r/askmath
Is this normal dice distribution or is there a problem with it? [read description]3mo ⋅ klacar ⋅ r/askmath
I saw this on a notice board in the building of my school's mathematics department building. What is this a diagram of?8mo ⋅ andrewsoncha ⋅ r/askmath
What is the maximum number of bishops you can place on a chessboard such that none of them can take one another?8mo ⋅ BethStubbs ⋅ r/askmath
Why did he draw a circle when all the numbers can only be on the number line?9mo ⋅ Born-Log9467 ⋅ r/askmath
Can someone please tell me how to do this I'm not quite sure what to do after N=L11mo ⋅ Thatguywhogame ⋅ r/askmath
Can some explain to me why these angles would not be equal if the shape is defined as a parallelogram?7mo ⋅ the_pi_rat ⋅ r/askmath
I need a geometric solution. Trigonometry and calculators are not allowed9mo ⋅ GEO_USTASI ⋅ r/askmath
My sister is supposed to find the area of the green square, but neither of us understand how to find it given only these measurements. How should she go about it?10mo ⋅ KungenSam ⋅ r/askmath
Pick two opposite corners of a cube with side length 1. What is the minimum length of a path between these two points, assuming we travel on the cube's surface?8mo ⋅ pretty-cool-math ⋅ r/askmath
Please help I know it’s simple but feel like I’m doing something wrong sorry for stupid simple math question9mo ⋅ Interesting-Car612 ⋅ r/askmath
How are you supposed to solve this limit? Question said without using L'hopital's rule even though I don't think it is ever solvable with it9mo ⋅ mymodded ⋅ r/askmath
A colleague left this in the staff room at my school, I guess it’s his birthday - how old is he?1yr ⋅ DecGarrett ⋅ r/askmath
Does a graph constructed like this model some equation? Like the curved line.2yr ⋅ super_very_cool_wow ⋅ r/askmath
Do numbers like these exist? If they do, are they always irrational, and are they useful in any way?4mo ⋅ skan76 ⋅ r/askmath
Trying to solve this pattern for my daughter's game and am feeling dumb.2yr ⋅ vpeshitclothing ⋅ r/askmath
My teacher gave us this really hard problem to solve, id greatly appreciate if someone could help explain it to me.1yr ⋅ MajdChami1 ⋅ r/askmath
My father just gave me this piece of paper too think about. Is there even a solution to this problem?5mo ⋅ joko2008 ⋅ r/askmath
Is the minimum value of x^x, which is e^(-1/e), an irrational number?7mo ⋅ Mandelbrot1611 ⋅ r/askmath
We roll a fair six sided dice repeatedly, until we have rolled each side of the dice at least once. What is the expected number of rolls that we make?8mo ⋅ pretty-cool-math ⋅ r/askmath
Why does 69^69^69^-69 dish out 69( idk what flaire to add so i added logic)1yr ⋅ katsutdasheep ⋅ r/askmath
Hi, I'm new to limits and I'm wondering why is it 2 instead of 3 in the denominator? Thanks in advance.8mo ⋅ junlinchan ⋅ r/askmath
Does anyone know the name of this paradox? I can't find any examples of it, and it was also never explained to me all that well why this discrepancy exists. If anyone could point me in the right direction to some resources about this, that would be much appreciated!9mo ⋅ ovr9000storks ⋅ r/askmath
Hey guys. Why do I keep seeing that (-x)^2 should be x^2 in the event we square both sides of this equation? How does this work? I (-x)^2 would just be x.6mo ⋅ Geisl ⋅ r/askmath
Can this figure be drawn without ever lifting the pencil and not going along the same line more than once?11mo ⋅ AdamWayne04 ⋅ r/askmath
Is there any systematic way of approaching this problem? [Check comments for context]2mo ⋅ AWS_0 ⋅ r/askmath
Is this correct? (Trying to solve for finding the length of a line)7mo ⋅ catsarekindaawesome ⋅ r/askmath
how would you simply this in order to remove square roots from the denominator ?7mo ⋅ Rare-Yoghurt36 ⋅ r/askmath
WolframAlpha just computes it instead of solving it. I am having a hard time figuring this out.4mo ⋅ ConCondom ⋅ r/askmath
If you have an arbitrary point in coordinates (a, b) what are the coordinates of another point (c, c^2) on the parabola y=x^2 if the point on the parabola is as close to the other point as possible?7mo ⋅ Mandelbrot1611 ⋅ r/askmath
