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A surprisingly easy way to square numbers ending in 5

Here's a mental maths trick I really like. Want to calculate 75 without pen and paper? Take the first digit (7), multiply it by the next number...

Does this "trick" I use in my every day life hold up? Why? Does it have a name?

Hi! So, all my life I've been using this theorem I developed and I thought was common knowledge, but apparently it isn't. So, I came here...

What is Group Theory?

Helloooo, Im a high school student that is currently learning about logarithims,exponential functions and graphing, and in the course my professor started off by saying...

Is it possible to construct a formal logical system without any informality in its foundations?

With my current understanding, the foundations of mathematics (the ZFC axioms, for example) are usually built upon a logical system (oftentimes first-order logic). But usually...