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If a lawn sprinkler is submerged and made to suck water in instead of spray it out, which way does it spin?
Start with any positive integer . If is even, replace it by , and if is odd, replace it by . Repeat this forever. Prove or disprove that every starting value eventually reaches 1.
Let and be the roots of . Express in terms of and without solving the equation.
What actually makes ice slippery enough to skate on: pressure melting, friction heating, or an intrinsically liquid-like surface layer?
P is the class of decision problems that can be solved in polynomial time, and NP is the class of decision problems whose yes answers can be checked in polynomial time given a suitable certificate. Is P equal to NP? Equivalently, does some NP-complete problem, such as Boolean satisfiability, have a…
Under some conditions can initially hotter water freeze faster than initially cooler water placed in the same freezer?
Twin primes are pairs of primes that differ by 2, such as or . Prove that there are infinitely many twin prime pairs.
What physical process converts the collapse of a tiny gas bubble driven by intense sound waves in a liquid into a picosecond flash of visible/UV light, with the bubble's interior briefly reaching temperatures rivaling the Sun's surface or hotter?
Given two graphs on vertices, decide whether they are isomorphic, that is, whether some relabeling of the vertices of one turns it into the other. Is there an algorithm that does this in time polynomial in ?
Why does liquid poured slowly from a spout often dribble down the outside of the spout instead of falling cleanly into the cup?
Prove that every even integer greater than 2 is the sum of two primes. For example and .
Find all polynomials with real coefficients such that for every real .
What inside a whistling kettle actually produces the sound as the water boils?
Let be the infimum of all real such that two matrices can be multiplied using arithmetic operations. The schoolbook method shows , and because the output has entries. Is ?