Timeline for Generalization of the two bucket puzzle
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11 events
| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| Nov 18, 2009 at 6:09 | comment | added | Shlomo Shamai | Yes, you are absolutely right, I missed a - sign. | |
| Nov 18, 2009 at 6:01 | comment | added | Elizabeth S. Q. Goodman | Thank you for accepting; I am glad to have seen the question. No, the way I wrote it works out--you have B in one bucket and B-nA in A before filling it, so you subtract B-(A-(B-nA))=B-((n+1)A-B). | |
| Nov 18, 2009 at 5:36 | comment | added | Shlomo Shamai | Thanks for the great answer. Should it be $2B-(n-1)A$ instead of $2B-(n+1)A$? | |
| Nov 18, 2009 at 5:20 | vote | accept | Shlomo Shamai | ||
| Nov 17, 2009 at 10:55 | history | edited | Andrew Stacey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Replaced less-than and greater-than signs by \lt and \gt.
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| Nov 17, 2009 at 10:53 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | The problem is that the mathematics rendering is done last, even after it's been sent to the browser, so there's plenty of other things that muck around with the content first and the mathematics has to be safe-guarded from that. In particular, anything that looks remotely like an HTML tag will either get interpreted as such or removed by some zealous script. Putting a space after the opening sign means that it doesn't look like a tag any more so any compliant browser shouldn't misinterpret it. But there are plenty of non-compliant browsers out there so this isn't a stable solution. | |
| Nov 17, 2009 at 10:35 | comment | added | Elizabeth S. Q. Goodman | Ah--thank you very much, I will do that next time. I kept editing, though, and putting spaces in appears to have done the trick too. | |
| Nov 17, 2009 at 10:34 | history | edited | Elizabeth S. Q. Goodman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
sorry; less-than-signs were being read as HTML tags and I was confused. I think it's fine now.
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| Nov 17, 2009 at 10:32 | comment | added | Andrew Stacey | The problem was the less-than and greater-than signs. I changed them to \lt and \gt instead. | |
| Nov 17, 2009 at 10:31 | history | edited | Andrew Stacey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Converted angle brackets to LaTeX counterparts
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| Nov 17, 2009 at 10:24 | history | answered | Elizabeth S. Q. Goodman | CC BY-SA 2.5 |