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Have you ever tried to imagine what the world was like in the distant past? Maybe you’d like to explore the age of the dinosaurs, when the Earth was much hotter than it was today. Perhaps you’d prefer when temperatures dropped to much colder than today. Y…

So it’s that time of year again. Everybody’s talking about all these crazy new habits they’re gonna start implementing in 2020 because in 2019 you weren’t living your real life. In 2020 though, that’s gonna be the real you. That’s gonna be the fully torqu…

Let G and H be inverse functions. So let’s just remind ourselves what it means for them to be inverse functions. That means that if I have two sets of numbers, so let’s say one set right over there, that’s another set right over there. If we view that fir…

Let’s see if we can figure out what the limit of ( x^2 + 1 ) over ( \sin(x) ) is as ( x ) approaches infinity. So let’s just think about what’s going on in the numerator and then think about what’s going on in the denominator. In the numerator, we have (…

7.7 billion. That’s the estimated number of people in the world today. To put it in perspective, that’s 110,000 NFL stadiums filled to capacity. If each of us were to hold hands, we would surround the entire circumference of the earth 345 times. The conce…

So I’ve got a binomial variable ( x ) and I’m going to describe it in very general terms. It is the number of successes after ( n ) trials, where the probability of success for each trial is ( p ). This is a reasonable way to describe really any binomial …