In Reply to: Well... posted by Victor Khomenko on July 25, 2000 at 19:52:00:
Sorry, don't know the story about the inventor of chess....would enjoy hearing it.on the 'powers problem:' please see Gnat's proof below. A more informal version of Gnat's argument would involve comparing the graphs of x^e and e^x (for positive x) --- these graphs intersect only once in the first quadrant, at x = e.
What is that movie where a lady mathematician has a brief affair with Michael Douglas?
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- Euclidean parallel? - George M 05:29:03 07/26/00 (0)