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How do you make Ubuntu accept files sent over bluetooth Aside from the Force, is there magic in Star Wars? Hello recently I went to best buy and played with a Nikon B500, it was great. I was able to focus on the smallest things, close or far, zoomed all the way in and all the way out. So I went on the internet and found out that the B700 shoots in raw so I got it instead thinking it was better. Only I cant get it to focus on anything close up, weather in macro or not after like 25% zoom it no longer focuses on anything no matter what settings I put it on leaving me to think that I should have gotten the cheaper B500. It may not shoot in raw but at least it would be usable. I am fairly new to photography I had a friend with much more experience come over and try to figure it out. He told me that my camera has a range that it is able to focus on. Only the cheaper B500 focused on things way more zoomed in and with the camera much closer to the object so it doesn't make much since to me. So my question is why wont my camera focus on macro shots (weather in macro or not)? In "", Mark Lutz mentions "mixins". I'm from a C/C++/C# background and I have not heard the term before. What is a mixin?   Reading between the lines of  (which I've linked to because it's quite long), I'm presuming it's a case of using multiple inheritance to extend a class as opposed to 'proper' subclassing. Is this right?   Why would I want to do that rather than put the new functionality into a subclass? For that matter, why would a mixin/multiple inheritance approach be better than using composition?  What separates a mixin from multiple inheritance? Is it just a matter of semantics? How to break the Y axis in an Excel sheet I want to break the Y-axis in an Excel sheet. How can I do that?  For example, suppose I have the data in a range from 0-7000 and then range from 22000-28000. I want a break in the Y axis from 8000-20000. Why use getters and setters/accessors? 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How to find range $a_{75}$ of the term of the series $a_n=a_{n-1}+ {1 \over {a_{n-1}}} $ If $a_1=1$ and for n&gt;1$$a_n=a_{n-1}+ {1 \over {a_{n-1}}} $$ $a_{75}$ lies between (a) (12,15) (b) (11,12) (c) (15,18)  Now , in this question, I rewrote, $a_n-a_{n-1} = {1 \over {a_{n-1}}}$, to make a telescopic type and summed the terms to get $$a_n-a_{1}= {1 \over {a_{n-1}}}+ {1 \over {a_{n-2}}}...{1 \over {a_{1}}}$$ And as ${1 \over {a_{r}}} &lt;1$ for all r , I got $a_{75} &lt;76$ , but it's of no help as , the upper bound is much higher. I got no further ideas , on how to solve it, please help.