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Phillips Hall
100
This subset of the Real Numbers is known as the “counting numbers”, and is the subject of the Archimedean Property.
What are natural numbers?
100
In 1856, Gauss was quoted as saying that mathematics is the queen of the sciences, and that this branch of mathematics is the queen of mathematics.
What is number theory?
100
On hypotenuse AB of right triangle ABC, D is the point for which CB = BD. If the measure of angle B is 40°, then this is the measure of angle ACD.
What is 20º?
100
This is the number of possible unordered 5-card poker hands (Does not need to be computed precisely).
What is
100
This is the animal that lives in the bottom hall of the basement and targets bme students.
What is a minotaur?
200
This property of some functions implies the function is continuous and has a tangent line at each interior point in its domain.
What is differentiability?
200
In statistics, the Gaussian distribution with parameters mean = 0, and variance=1, is better known as this.
What is the standard normal distribution?
200
An equilateral triangle has vertices (-4,0) and (4,0). These are the coordinates of all possible third vertices.
What are (0, 4√3) and (0, -4√3)?
200
In Blackjack, the basic method of counting cards includes subtracting one when any card of value equal to or higher than this card is played.
What is 10?
200
This is the thing that is on top of the Phillips hall main entrance tree.
What is THE book that you sign when you graduate?
300
This term describes a set equipped with a binary operation that combines any two elements to form a third element such that four main axioms are satisfied: closure, associativity, identity, and invertibility.
What is a group?
300
A gauss is a unit for measuring this magnitude (physics).
What is strength of magnetic field?
(Also accepted: magnetic induction, or magnetic flux density.)
300
In △ABC, D is the point on BC for which AD bisects median BE this is the ratio BD : DC.
What is 1 : 2?
300
After one move for each player in chess, there are this many possible distinct positions of pieces on the board.
What is 400?
300
This is Dr. McCombs's office number.
What is 358?
400
Used in computing matrices to large powers, this type of square matrix is formed by converting to a new set of basis vectors determined by the eigenvectors of the original matrix.
What is a diagonal matrix?
400
His calculations for the tracking of this dwarf planet used the fast fourier transform over 150 years before it was officially introduced and published in 1965 by Tukey and Cooley .
What is Ceres?
400
In the following diagram, two quarter circles are inscribed in a square ABCD with side length 4. This number is the area of the region BCE bounded by the quarter circles.
What is 16 - 4\sqrt{3} - \frac{8\pi}{3}?
400
The maximum possible score in a game of the TV show version of Jeopardy! (within $50,000).
What is $566,400? (±$50K: $516,500 to $616,400.)
Also: What is $0? (in a CMC game, ± $3.85)
400
This is the year that Phillips Hall opened.
What is 1919? (established in 1918)
500
This useful technique for computing limits in certain indeterminate forms states
What is L'Hopital's Rule?
500
For his doctoral dissertation in 1799, he presented an alternate proof to this famous theorem.
What is The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra?
[Note: Gauss’ 1799 proof was incomplete by modern standards of rigor.]
500
n △ABC, D is on AB and E is on BC. Let CDAE= {K}, and let BKAC = {F}.. If AK : KE = 3 : 2 and BK : KF = 4 : 1, then the ratio CK : KD has this value.
What is 3 : 2?
500
In Scrabble, this is currently the largest number of points that is possible to be scored by a single word (within 200).
What is 1,778? (±200)
500
This is the current number of grad students in the math department (±5)
What is 87?