0's Exponents are impossible?
Zero to the zero power – is $0^0=1$?
How to factor intricate polynomial $ ab^3 - a^3b + a^3c -ac^3 +bc^3 - b^3c $ I would like to know how to factor the following polynomial.  $$ ab^3 - a^3b + a^3c -ac^3 +bc^3 - b^3c $$ What is the method I should use to factor it? If anyone could help.. Thanks in advance. Creating files in C++ Was Severus Snape made a Death Eater before or after he told Voldemort about the Prophecy? Based on discussion in comments on , was Severus Snape a Death Eater (real one, with Dark Mark) before he overheard Sybil give the Prophecy to Dumbledore and relayed it to Voldemort? Or was he made a DE after that?  Canon sources only please (books/interviews/Pottermore) How to handle WndProc messages in WPF? In Windows Forms, I'd just override WndProc, and start handling messages as they came in.  Can someone show me an example of how to achieve the same thing in WPF? How do I enable hibernation on Wubi? I installed Ubuntu on my Windows 7 Sager laptop using Wubi. Hibernate (i.e. suspend to disc) is not an option from the power icon, only suspend, shutdown, etc. Hibernate is also not an option from my battery/lid close options. I understand that hibernation is disabled by default in Ubuntu 12.04. I tried running pm-hibernate but I get the following message:  Looking for splash system... none  s2disk: Snapshotting system   and then the computer just hangs with a black screen. According to the documentation  if this fails then I can't enable hibernate but it offers no help in making pm-hibernate succeed.  Could swap be my problem? It looks like I have very small swap:  user@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/swaps Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority /host/ubuntu/disks/swap.disk            file        262140  0   -1   The advice on  is only for the author's set up (e.g. I don't have an Ubuntu install disk since I used Wubi) and he says that 'INFO: This will not work for 12.04, resume from hibernate work differently in 12.04.'  Any advice? I really need to get hibernate working to use my laptop as a, er, laptop.  Thanks If $E/F$ is algebraic and every $f\in F[X]$ has a root in $E$, why is $E$ algebraically closed? "Optimiser" vs "optimizer"? I have seen words which are spelled either with a "z" or with a "s"  like "optimizer" and " optimiser".  I thought that the ones with "z" are wrong but on searching the web I found that both are correct. Why so? Is there any difference in the use also? I have read questions about this, and people say that it is just to include the natbib package and the plainnat style. For some reason my references will not sort alphabetically. Any help on this would be much appreciated! I am really new to LaTeX ...  My commands:  \documentclass[a4paper,norsk]{article} \usepackage{amstext} \usepackage{makeidx} \usepackage{graphicx} \usepackage[comma,authoryear]{natbib} \usepackage[norsk]{babel} \usepackage[hmargin=3cm,vmargin=3.5cm]{geometry} \pagestyle{plain}  \begin{document}  \begin{thebibliography}{56}  \end{thebibliography}  \printindex  \bibliographystyle{plainnat}  \end{document} Why use a z test rather than a t test with proportional data? When testing the difference between 2 proportions why do we use a z-test rather than a t-test?    Further, is there a simple way to conduct an omnibus test for significant differences between more than 2 proportions (in the form of percentages). Is there an equivalent to a one-way ANOVA for this?  I imagine that you could use logistic regression (assuming you have the original data for the proportions in the form of 0s and 1s) Are there other options? Per-site Meta post didn't populate Moderator Inbox Per  I'm posting this issue.  I'm a moderator over on Sci-fi &amp; Fantasy.SE.  My moderator inbox missed :    The Meta Question in question should show up after the moderator message and before the new meta question, as it was posted on Jan 2 (it's currently Jan 6, so '2 days ago' is Jan 4). Learning development with Force platform. Any good books? I'm a bit familiar with Java and SQL, any good books to get on coding in Apex for salesforce? Providing command key-value arguments with commas in value When using commands that allow using key-value pairs, how can one provide an argument value that has commas in it? As an example, say I'm using the \newacronym command from the glossaries package as below:  \newacronym[firstplural = Alphas, Bravos, and Charlies (ABCs), plural = ABCs]{ABC}{ABC}{Alpha, Bravo, Charlie}   Unfortunately, the comma is used to separate key-value pairs so the Bravos, and Charlies (ABCs) portion doesn't get parsed correctly. Is there a way to overcome this? Erase Windows Vista to Install Ubuntu new here. I have an old E-machine which as Windows Vista on it and I want to erase the Windows Vista, and install Ubuntu on it instead, but I am not sure where to start. Can I first install Ubuntu, and THEN erase Windows Vista, or is there a more sure method? I appreciate your help. Convergence of non increasing and non decreasing sequences to the same limit Money making in Runescape nginx support for .htaccess / rewrite rules? Differences from Apache? Get in vs. get on Possible Duplicate:          I'm an EFL (English as a foreign language) teacher and I haven't been able to come up with a good principle for which preposition to use after get when referring to transportation.  Some examples:   Get in:   a car/taxi/van/truck, etc.  Get on:   a bus/plane/bike/truck, etc.    How can one choose whether to use in or on? Note that in some cases, such as the example with truck, either preposition is possible but the choice affects the meaning.  I've been telling my students that there is no rule, so they just have to memorize which preposition to use, but I'm really hoping I'm wrong.  This question would be better suited for the upcoming  Stack Exchange, but it hasn't entered beta yet. More . What should I do if I lost money in a scam? I live in New Jersey and my son wanted to order some toys from this guy who said he makes them in his house and he could give him the best deal, but before he could send these toys he needed my 16 year old son to put $200 into his bank account. The guy then gave my son his wells Fargo bank account info and told him as soon he deposits the money he will ship his toys. Well, that never happened.  My son called the guy up and he told my son, “I’m only the middle guy, and my boss is in Nigeria and you need to put another $200 in my account because now I have to ship the toys from elsewhere.” So my son deposited another 200 dollars into this guys bank account.  My son has sent these jerks a total of $650. Is there anything I can do to these individuals? At this point even if I don’t get the money back it’s okay but I don’t want this happening to other kids and I want to teach these guys a lesson that you’re not above the law. The guy is still calling my son up saying that he is pissed off that he didn’t get more money.  What can I do now? Is it possible to do The Pitt without a slave outfit? Find the value of $P(1)$ Let $P (x) = x^2 + bx + c$, where $b$ and $c$ are integer.       If $P(x)$ is a factor of both $x^4 + 6x^2 + 25$ and $3x^4 + 4x^2 + 28x  + 5$, find the value of $P(1)$.   I am not being able to solve this.Some hints/suggestions?  Tell me if I can edit to improve this question.I could'nt try much.Got stuck.