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Why does MMA fail to find a solution but WA does?

I am looking for $n$, where $$\dfrac{2^{-3 n-2} \pi ^{n+1}}{(n+1)!}<\dfrac{1}{10000000000000000}$$ We can just test values of $n$ and find the smallest $n = 13$, or any $n \gt 13$ or can use ...
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please help me resolve find what method gives me a result for this

I have this mathematic problem: (124164a/300b/2360/.85)+(124164a/25b/2360/.85)+(124164a/55b/2360/.85)=3.81=(a/b/2360/.85) And this is the result: a≈87.4514, b≈0.0114422 I payed for WolframAlpha Pro ...
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How can one expand an arbitrary boolean combination into the $2^n$ atoms of the associated boolean algebra of size $2^{2^n}$?

The answer of user250938 to Can one usefully apply the Boolean functions of Mathematica to measurable Boolean sets? and the second comment of Monroe Eskew to the answer to https://mathoverflow.net/...
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Quick Wolfram Question [closed]

This is my code so far: For[i=2, i<10, i++, Solve[x^i == x+1 && x >0]] I would like to sum up all the x values that it outputs. How can I do so?
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How I can define and arrange following linear equation?

We have: Theta * (2L-K) = 0 Theta cannot be zero because it's angle parameters. (2L-K)=0 then We can calculate L=K/2 How we can define this constraint in Wolfram|...
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How to ask WolframAlpha to find 'x such that p=32*x+1 is prime'

I want to find prime $p$ in form of $p=32 x+1$ How can I ask WolframAlpha for such $x$ that will fulfil this equation? EDIT: let's say that $100$ or $n$ solutions is enough for me EDIT2: I need x's ...
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Different solutions for $\sin (2x)-\cos (2x)= 1$ and $\sin(2x) = 1 + \cos(2x)$ [closed]

I am trying to solve an equation in Wolfram Mathematica and I get different results although the equation is technically the same. I am really confused. so basically: $\sin(2x) - \cos(2x)= 1$ is the ...
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Resolve, Solve, Refine, etc., do not work, but Wolfram|Alpha does

As a teacher, I am trying to show some step-by-step execution. (Any help with tools would be most appreciated.) Related, I cannot get the following to work: ...
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Finding all integer solutions of the following inequality $\bigg| \sqrt[3]{2}-\frac{p}{q} \bigg | <\frac{1}{q^{5/2}}$

I want to find integer solutions of the following inequality by using Mathematica $$\bigg| \sqrt[3]{2}-\frac{p}{q} \bigg | <\frac{1}{q^{5/2}}$$ ...
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Can Mathematica solve functional equations with nested variable?

First, inline free form input can solve these equations: But it seems no native Mathematica function can solve these, there is even an error page for equations of this form (nestdv). Now my ...
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What am I doing wrong when using Solve ( Wolfram Alpha)

It is not because we do not interpreted correctly WolframAlpha["Solve[64(!(*FractionBox[(x - *SqrtBox[(*SuperscriptBox[(x), \ (2)] - 1)]), (x + 1)]) !(*SuperscriptBox[()), \ (2)])-25(1-!(*FractionBox[...
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Significantly different results between Mathematica and Wolfram Alpha with large radicals and small numbers [closed]

I have some code which involves tiny numbers being put to the power of very large numbers. The function I'm looking at is $\varphi = \omega(T) \left(1 - (1 - \epsilon)^{n_{e}(T)} \right)$ when $\...
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Why does this work with Wolfram|Alpha but not Mathematica? [closed]

I ran into this while doing some work today: It's the exact same syntax - and I expected that Mathematica would be more likely to be able to solve it, since oftentimes Wolfram|Alpha doesn't have all ...
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Mathematica unable to solve equation numerically while Wolfram|Alpha can

I want to solve the following equation 2 x == Sinh[x] Mathematica is unable to do so ...
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