Cedars Math:Chapter 3

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Chapter 3: More on Fractions

3.1: Adding fractions with the same denominator

• The Python code by Professor Connell to test the Polya Conjecture.

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Review

• "How to Solve It: Ways to Compute 5x15"
• "Homework: Things to Study"
• "The man who taught infinity: how GH Hardy tamed Srinivasa Ramanujan’s genius," (2016) and "1729 (number)", Wikipedia.
• "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes", Who will guard the guards themselves?

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. Test 2. LaTeX and Anaconda Python.

• Handout: "Notes on LaTeX"

• Handout: "Notes on Installing Anaconda Python"

• "Test 2"

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Adding Fractions

• "Handout: Adding Fractions".

• Handout: "All Numbers Are Interesting" joke.

• Handout: Rotating Symbols in Latex, and How to Find A Computer Command You Don't Know.

• Video of class, though with just sound for much of it.

• Infinite sums of fractions (not covered in class)

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Friday, October 29. Adding Mixed Numbers.

• Video of class.

• Monopoly: It is not a crime to be a monopoly, but it is one to monopolize. You can be the only company selling something because you have the best prices and product, but you can't, for example, combine all the companies selling the product together and raise the price. My amicus brief explaining that the lady who designs websites in Colorado doesn't count as a monopoly is "303 CREATIVE v. Elenis et al., Brief for Law and Economics Scholars as Amici Curiae."

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3.5. Order of Operations and Greater Than. Monday, November 1.

• Mr. Rasmusen will be in Florida and will teach by Zoom. The class will meet in room 106 as usual.
• Video of the class.