What is the closed-form expression for the below sum of Geometric Progression (GP) sequence‚ S n ? S n a aR aR 2 ... aR n (1) where R is called the common ratio (between consecutive terms) of the GP sequence. The reason why we want to derive a closed-form expression for S n is for the sake of calculating the summation‚ or otherwise we need to add all terms one-by-one together‚ which does not make a sense if the number of terms is huge‚ say a million terms! Most importantly
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October 14th‚2014 Eng 122 A Marxist Approach to “2BR02B” Kurt Vonnegurt JR’s story “2BR02B” critiques how America os at the point of being over populated and the only possible solution to it is population control. The author implies that a human being is just an object that can be bought by another human being. Patiently waiting in Chicago Lyingin Hospital‚ Mr. Edward Wheling‚ was awaiting the arrival of his triplets. As the doctor and the hostess of the gas chamber were having a conversation
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TIME VALUE OF MONEY SUMS 1. A finance company advertises that it will pay a lumpsum of Rs 8000 at the end of 6 yrs to investors who deposit annually Rs 1000 for 6 yrs. What is the rate implicit in this offer? 2. You want to take a trip to the moon which costs Rs 10‚00‚000-the cost is expected to remain unchanged in nominal terms. You can save annually Rs 50000 to fulfil this desire. How long will you have to wait if your savings earn an interest of 12 percent p.a.? 3. Suppose a firm borrows
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To sum up‚ the transition from childhood to adolescence is complex‚ involving change in many different aspects of an individual’s life. While the transition through adolescence is inevitable for a sound development‚ the speed and degree of these changes may overload the capacity of many young to cope and result in a potential experience of stress. Teenagers must therefore develop a range of mechanisms which allow them to function effectively in the face of the stress which comes about the transition
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my family (guys) try and tell me to do something they say things like “no guy is gonna want a girl who can’t cook or want a girl who bites her nails or want a girl with such an attitude” as if my only purpose for living was to please some guy I also need feminism because when my little cries‚ gets upset‚ or happy or expresses any emotion he’s told by family members (also guys) to stop acting like a girl. As if being a means keeping things bottled up and being tough all the time or that being a
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In Hong Kong‚ Dim Sum is a traditional food.There are many elderly go to Dim Sum restaurants regularly‚ not only in the morning‚ but also at lunch time. In addition to satisfy their appetite‚ it is already a part of life for some people who go to Dim Sum restaurant every day in Hong Kong. In my view‚ Dim Sum should be the best item to represent Hong Kong culture. It is because Dim Sum exemplify unique characteristic of Hong Kong culture. In the following‚ I will introduce some of the characteristics
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The unique culinary art of dim sum means "dot-hearts"‚ small treats that touch the heart‚ and originated in China hundreds of years ago. It is said to have started along the Silk Road where farmers‚ laborers and travelers often stopped at roadside teahouses to have afternoon tea‚ regain sustenance and relax‚ an olden days version of the local neighborhood bar At first‚ it was considered inappropriate to combine tea with food‚ because people believed that this would lead to excessive weight gain.
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heavy workload‚ fast food is likely to be their priority whereas some traditional foods lose their popularity. Nevertheless‚ there are many cuisines that stand out and even be wide-known in all over the world. One of them is Dim Sum - the art of Chinese traditional food. Dim Sum‚ literally means “to touch your heart”‚ is small appetizers that consist of a variety of steamed and fried dumplings as well as other goodies served in steamer baskets to keep it warm (Parkinson‚ 2015). Initially‚ it was designed
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Marxist theory This theory was basically ideas of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Both of them were born from Germany. Marx was a student of the most prominent German Idealist Philosopher. Engels was editing a radical journal that written by Karl Marx at the year 1844. Due to this both of them meet and become close friends. Engels start to share his opinion toward capitalism to Marx. After that‚ they decided to work together and become partnership because Marx was good in dealing with difficult
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Gems from the world of data structures and algorithms Bit-Sum Prime Difficulty level: moderate Every student‚ who has learned programming‚ must have written a program to determine whether a given positive integer is a prime number. Basically in order to determine whether a positive integer n is prime‚ we search for any number in the range [2‚ n − 1] which can divide n. Some of you would have designed a slighly better implementation where you search √ for any divisor of
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