Calculus
Counting and Probability
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Math Trivia
100

int_0^infty e^(-x^2)dx

sqrt pi / 2

100

James tosses 6 identical dice, the outcome of each die will be from 1 to 6. What is the total number of outcomes of the resulting roll? (order of the dice does not matter)

((11),(6)) = 462

100

Name the 5 platonic solids.

Tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron

100

NO CALCULATOR!

Which is greater:

2.7^e or e^2.7

e^2.7

100

Who proved Fermat's Last Theorem?

Andrew Wiles

200

d/dx ln(xln(xln(x...)))

1/(x-x/ln(xln(xln(x...)))

200

James flips five coins, exactly three of which lands heads. What is the probability that the first two are both heads?

3/10

200

What is the tangent double angle identity? (What is tan(2x))

tan(2x) = (2tanx)/(1-tan^2x)

200

Alice and Bob are playing a game. A coin is put in the top left square of an 8x8 chessboard. They alternate turns and each player can move one square either down, right, or diagonally down and right. Whoever moves the coin to the bottom right square wins. Alice plays first. Is there a winning strategy and if so, which player will win?

Alice has a winning strategy

200

What is the smallest number that can be expressed as the sum of two positive cube numbers in two different ways? Famously called Ramanujan's number.

10^3 + 9^3 = 12^3 + 1^3 = 1729

300

int_-infty^infty sin(pix)/(pix) - sin^2(pix)/(pix)^2 dx

0

300
N people wearing hats attend a part. They check their hats at the door and at the end of the night when they leave, the hats are randomly distributed back to each person. As N approaches infinity, what is the probability that no person gets their hat back?

1/e

300

A circle of radius 6 is drawn centered at the origin. How many squares of side length 1 and integer coordinate vertices intersect the interior of this circle?

132

300

Consider the sequence 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, ... obtained by writing one 1, two 2s, etc. What is the 2023rd term of this sequence?

64

300

John Urschel received a doctorate in mathematics from MIT. He was also a professional football player in the NFL. What team did he play for?

Baltimore Ravens

400

What is the integer part of  sum_{i=2}^9999 1/sqrti 

197

400

Hannah has two coins, one of which is fair and the other of which always comes up heads. She takes one of them at random and flips it twice. Given that it came up heads both times, what is the probability that it is the coin that always comes up heads?

4/5

400

What is the radius of the largest circle centered at the origin under the curve 

e^(-x^2)?

sqrt(1/2(1+ln(2))

400

How many zeroes are there at the end of the number 125!

31
400

Which mathematician famously died from a gunshot wound to the stomach at the age of 20?

Galois

500

int_2^4 sqrt(ln(9-x))/(sqrt(ln(9-x)) + sqrt(ln(x+3))) dx

1

500

How many 8 x 8 matrices are there in which every entry is a 0 or 1 and each row and each column contains an odd number of 1s?

2^49

500

Given n random points on a circle, what is the probability that the convex polygon formed by these points does not contain the center of the circle?

n (1/2)^(n-1)

500

What is the smallest possible value of positive integer n > 1, such that there exists positive integers a, b, c where 

a^2 + b^2 = c^2 and abc+n

is a square number?

4

500

Which US president published a proof of the Pythagorean Theorem in the New-England Journal of Education on April 1, 1876? (This was 5 years before he became president)

James Garfield