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A complete list of English words that contain ‘vv’ (two Vs in a row)
They are not very common, but still there are some English words that contain two Vs in a row. Unlike two Us in a row which are present (...)
September 20, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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To be on the safe side – English idiom with examples
You can be on the safe side in a situation that is potentially dangerous in a way, and it means that you do something to avoid the danger. (...)
September 19, 2013 – Jakub Marian – English
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How can chaos be deterministic?
Perhaps you have already heard the term “deterministic chaos”. It sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it? One would expect chaotic (...)
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Can mathematical theorems be proved with 100% certainty?
Many a mathematician considers mathematics to be the only truly exact science and would like to believe that the answer to the question in (...)
September 9, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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Are scientific theories objective?
Virtually all physicists praise the scientific method as the best possible approach to discovering the laws of nature because it is (...)
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Do natural numbers exist?
Imagine a life form consisting of jelly in water whose only sensation of the outer world is a continuous scale of pressure. It is not (...)
August 29, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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Are mathematical objects real?
There are two major (and very different) “world views” among mathematicians. Adherents of Plato’s view believe that mathematical objects (...)
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Intuition behind the Cauchy-Schwarz, Markov’s, and Jensen’s inequality
People often tend to learn inequalities just as formulas that are to be memorized, not to be thought about. There is, however, usually an (...)
March 13, 2013 – Jakub Marian – Mathematics
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Base 60: Digits and terminology
Ideally, every number (in its abstractness) should have its own symbol. However, since there are infinitely many natural numbers and our (...)
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