Member of the e-learning unit in Newcastle University's School of Mathematics and Statistics.

Lead developer of Numbas.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Compute the partial sum of an arithmetic sequence 8 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Compute the partial sum of an arithmetic sequence 8 years, 5 months ago

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I've tidied up the text, and gone to town on the variables because they were crazy.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Arithmetic sequences in an ice cream shop 8 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Arithmetic sequences in an ice cream shop 8 years, 5 months ago

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I've done a lot of rewording, and added random names.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Finding the formula for the $n^{\text{th}}$ term of linear sequences 8 years, 5 months ago

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I've reworded a bit.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Partial sum of an arithmetic sequence - birthday money 8 years, 5 months ago

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Partial sum of an arithmetic sequence - birthday money 8 years, 5 months ago

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Lots of little edits - I basically disagreed with every formatting choice you made!

This is a good question.

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Rounding and estimating calculations 2 8 years, 5 months ago

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I've split parts a and b into separate questions. I'm not sure about part c - is it obviousthat you'd always want to underestimate the distance? Maybe it needs a sentence like "you want to know if you'll meet your target in the next five minutes".

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Christian Lawson-Perfect on Rounding and estimating calculations 2 8 years, 5 months ago

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