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Introductions! / My Introduction

« on: March 28, 2007, 12:50:28 am »

Hello, my name is Michael, and I'm a sophomore Computer Science major/Math minor at a small university located in the town of Farmville, VA.  Yes, like the town's name suggests, there are quite a bit of farms in the area.

Hmmm additional info...

In my spare time I enjoy watching anime, programming, and learning new programming languages.  I'm also an ex-Battle.net Bot developer from the vL Forums (Quit bot development 2 years ago, but I started sophomore year of HS writing them in VB6, then realized the numerous bad habits I had picked up from using VB6 and switched to writing them in C++ =P).  I still visit the vL forums and post in spurts... usually b/c I'm procrastinating.

Anyways, just wanted to say hi to everyone and officially introduce myself.

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Math and Other Problems / Re: Help?

« on: March 28, 2007, 12:33:40 am »

Nice!  I'll definitely be using the script whenever I boot into Windows... actually methinks I'll just use the script while in linux too.

Well (if you didn't get the idea from poking around with it), it's totally web based.  As long as you have a browser that supports some minimal javascript, then you can use it under any OS.

By the way, welcome to x86.  I forgot to mention that before.  If you plan on sticking around, make a post in the introduction forum if you'd like.

I was more so referring to the fact that I was going to download and install the LaTeX package in linux and write a program/script to do what your script does locally, and just use your script when in Windows since at a quick glance it looks like it's more of a hassle to download and install the win32 port of it.  However why reinvent the wheel for a task that's relatively low priority to me, right?

And thanks for the welcome.  I've had this account created for awhile, I just never really used it... I believe I was referred here by Ender, however before that I've seen references to it from time to time on the vL forums.  I guess I'll make an introduction thread in intro forum soon.

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Math and Other Problems / Re: Help?

« on: March 28, 2007, 12:12:48 am »

Nice!  I'll definitely be using the script whenever I boot into Windows... actually methinks I'll just use the script while in linux too.

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Math and Other Problems / Re: Help?

« on: March 27, 2007, 11:39:56 pm »

I was totally approaching the problem all the wrong ways. i.e. I tried representing the factorial as an integral, which ended up being Gamma functions >_<;

Thanks Sido and Ender.

@rabbit misread the series.

@Sido  That's what I forgot.  I tried to convert it to a geometric and harmonic series but forgot to try telescoping >_<;  Nifty solution, thanks. 

@Ender different method, same conclusion, thanks!

EDIT:  Sido do you use a program to create those images?  If so, may I ask what it is?

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Math and Other Problems / Help?

« on: March 27, 2007, 06:13:17 pm »

Evaluate:

∞
∑ ( n/(n+1)! )
n=1


Now, I know that the damn thing is equal to 1, however I'm having trouble showing/proving this... I'd greatly appreciate any help.  Thanks.