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What is a “vector” really?
Inspired by Way Jeng who was a guest speaker to the Puyallup Math Society on Saturday February 17, 2024. Way’s high school teacher said that it is an object with number and direction. However, he had another teacher who later expressed a vector as an ordered pair, e.g. (3,4). This…
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Let f(x) = 4^x/(4^x+2)
and evaluate f(1/1997)+f(2/1997)+…+f(1996/1997). f(x) = 1/(1+2*4^(-x)); likewise f(x) = (4^x+2-2)/(4^x+2) = 1-2/(4^x+2), etc.
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