Wednesday, January 6, 2010

How To Masterburate With An Egg

MISCELLANEOUS FINANCIAL POWERS

To find the power of a number used, usually, almost always, the definition of empowerment . That is: Given

a,c\in\mathbb{R} and b\in\mathbb{Z}^+

a^b=c\Longleftrightarrow\begin{matrix}\underbrace{a.a.\cdots.a}\b\text{ veces }\end{matrix}=c

however, sometimes do not realize that there is another way unusual to find the quadratic power a number without using explicitly the definition. For example:

4^2=1+3+5+7=16

One more:

7^2=1+3+5+7+9+11+13=49

What strange, no? Well, what happens is that these examples we used a very interesting discovery, we have left a legacy through the great Pythagoras.

Pythagoras discovered that there was another way to find the quadratic power of a number. This process consists of adding odd numbers starting from the unit to cover the amount of numbers that equal the given base. Symbolically:

n^2 is equivalent to the sum of the first n odd natural numbers.

seems that everything is going well, but the method fails when trying to calculate the following, for example

\left(\dfrac{1}{2}\right)^2

The answer is obvious. We can not use the Pythagorean method because the base is not a number natural. Another

use. The Pythagorean method is generally used to calculate the sum of the first n natural numbers. So we have:

1+3+5+7+9\cdots+(2n-1)=n^2

whose proof is done using the method of proof by induction .

Source: Só mathematics.

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