Working With 2D Arrays in Java
Summing Up A 2D Array
Should initial e's after h-dropping be capitalized? A new Victorian-set British novel begins sentences containing h-dropping with lower-case e's, as in " 'e took my money, 'e did." This seems incorrect but I'm at a loss to find the rule. While trying some problems along with my friends we had difficulty in this question.   True or False: The value of the infinite product $$\prod\limits_{n=2}^{\infty} \biggl(1-\frac{1}{n^{2}}\biggr)$$ is $1$.   I couldn't do it and my friend justified it by saying that since the terms in the product have values less than $1$, so the value of the product can never be $1$. I don't know whether this justification is correct or not. But i referred to Tom Apostol's Mathematical Analysis book and found a theorem which states, that    The infinite product $\prod(1-a_{n})$ converges if the series $\sum a_{n}$ converges.   This assures that the above product converges. Could anyone help me in finding out where it converges to? And,   Does there exist a function $f$ in $\mathbb{N}$ ( like $n^{2}$, $n^{3}$) such that $\displaystyle \prod\limits_{n=1}^{\infty} \Bigl(1-\frac{1}{f(n)}\Bigr)$ has the value $1$? Which movie/TV show has an evil cyborg harvesting eyes from androids in a hidden town? I watched it maybe more than 8 to 12 years ago, but as far as I remember there was this place where androids (or maybe they were cyborgs) lived. (I think it was more like a hidden town). This guy finds them by accident (or at least I remember it that way) and tries to help them. I don't remember seeing any aliens or spaceships or anything like that. It was live-action, and I think US-based.  So, what I remember:   The bad guy is a human who has one red flashy robotic eye (not like terminators, it looks like a square eye patch above one of his eyes that functions like a second eye), he is collecting eyes from these androids/cyborgs. He also kills some of these androids/cyborgs but not all of them, some of them he just collects their eyes and doesn't kill (or get to kill). There was this woman who was a sexbot or something, she tried to give pleasure to the bad guy at some point, yet the bad guy added one of her eyes to his collection instead, but didn't/wasn't able to kill her. Towards the end she says something like "I used to give pleasure, now I only want to give pain" The human guy who found them tried to help them defend themselves from the bad guys, but they were in bad shape, many of them needed repair. To repair some of them, they needed spare parts they didn't seem to have, but one of the android/cyborg dudes said something like "we don't really bury our dead" and he brought a box of spare parts (or maybe android/cyborg body parts), they used these parts to repair some of the androids/cyborgs. There was this android/cyborg guy who was an assassin or something, but lost his fingers or hands, they couldn't find any hands compatible to his, but he said something like "I can still feel my trigger finger, just attach the weapons to my hands".   I remember it as a great movie/tv show, but I can't find anything about it. Can someone help me?  Please and thank you in advance... I'd like to install both Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows XP on a Dell laptop, and I was thinking about using a dual boot structure, and using the bulk of my hard drive as empty hard drive space to share files between the two operating systems (so choice of file system type is very important in this set-up).     The kind of partitioning structure I would like to use is  Partition 1 - Ubuntu 12.04 (root) (20GB)  Partition 2 - Ubuntu /home        (20GB)  Partition 3 : Free Space          (560GB)  Partition 4 : Windows XP          (35GB)  Partition 5 : SWAP                (3GB)  (Total Hardrive Capacity is ~640GB)    My question is; what is the best way to go about setting up this kind this system?   Should I install Windows XP first and setup the partitions, and then install Ubuntu which I believe will install the GRUB bootloader for OS booting choice   or   Do I install Ubuntu first, setting up the available partitions and then perform a WIndows install?  Please let me know if there is anything in this setup that I have left out and should know about, including things related to setting particular partitions as logical or primary, and whether the boot partition and the filesystem partition should actually be two separate partitions. I was peacefully playing GTA Online (yeah, was killing someone coming out of ls customs) then a hacker came and killed me using explosive ammos, I called him a hacker and he teleported to me and gave me 790k. I know that people get banned for receiving this kind of money, what should I do to avoid the ban? Initialize class fields in constructor or at declaration? I've been programming in C# and Java recently and I am curious where the best place is to initialize my class fields.  Should I do it at declaration?:  public class Dice {     private int topFace = 1;     private Random myRand = new Random();      public void Roll()     {        // ......     } }   or in a constructor?:  public class Dice {     private int topFace;     private Random myRand;      public Dice()     {         topFace = 1;         myRand = new Random();     }      public void Roll()     {         // .....     } }   I'm really curious what some of you veterans think is the best practice. I want to be consistent and stick to one approach. how to prove an element is non-zero in a tensor-product I was studying the following example from Atiyah &amp; MacDonald's Introduction to Commutative Algebra:   Let $x$ be the non-zero element in $N := \mathbf{Z}/ 2\mathbf{Z}$, $M := \mathbf{Z}$, and $M' := 2 \mathbf{Z}$. The element $2 \otimes x$ is zero in $M \otimes N$, but non-zero in $M' \otimes N$. I suppose this can be seen by the fact that $2 \otimes x$ generates $M' \otimes N$, and the tensor-product $M' \otimes N$ is non-zero.   However, I was wondering, what one would do if that element weren't a generator of $M' \otimes N$. So my question is:   What are the methods to prove that an element is non-zero in a tensor-product of modules?   Thanks a lot! How do I delete data for one game in the iPad Game Center? I have one particular game that saves data through the game center. Somehow the saved game data got messed up which causes the game not to work properly when I a connected to the internet (I.e. When the game center is accessible).   Is there some way to delete all the data belonging to that game only? It is an usual practice that any quantum field theory starts with a suitable Lagrangian density. It has been proved enormously successful. I understand, it automatically ensures valuable symmetries of physics to be preserved. But nevertheless the question about the generality of this approach keeps coming to my mind. My question is how one can be sure that this approach has to be always right and fruitful. Isn't it possible, at least from the mathematical point of view that a future theory of physics does not subscribe to this approach? How can I remove myself from India's visa blacklist? The reply buttons in chat shouldn't reposition themselves on pinged messages How long do seasons last? In the Kittens Game, how long (in real life minutes) do seasons last? If the subject of a sentence is separated by "and/or", should the verb be pluralized, as with "and", or agree with the rightmost subject, as with "or"? For example:     His co-workers and/or his boss was at fault.   vs.     His co-workers and/or his boss were at fault. I have 2 tables. One (domains) has domain ids, and domain names (dom_id, dom_url).  the other contains actual data, 2 of which columns require a TO and FROM domain names. So I have 2 columns rev_dom_from and rev_dom_for, both of which store the domain name id, from the domains table.  Simple.  Now I need to actually display both domain names on the webpage. I know how to display one or the other, via the LEFT JOIN domains ON reviews.rev_dom_for = domains.dom_url query, and then you echo out the dom_url, which would echo out the domain name in the rev_dom_for column.  But how would I make it echo out the 2nd domain name, in the dom_rev_from column? How do I show that $\sum_{cyc} \frac {a^6}{b^2 + c^2} \ge \frac {abc(a + b + c)}2?$ Let $a, b, c$ be positive real numbers, show that  $$\frac {a^6}{b^2 + c^2} + \frac {b^6}{c^2 + a^2} + \frac {c^6}{a^2 + b^2} \ge \frac {abc(a + b + c)}2.$$  I think this is likely to turn out to be proved by Hölder, but I can't see how. Any hints will be appreciated. How to suppress Terminated message after killing in bash? How can you suppress the Terminated message that comes up after you kill a process in a bash script?  I tried set +bm, but that doesn't work.  I know another solution involves calling exec 2&gt; /dev/null, but is that reliable? How do I reset it back so that I can continue to see stderr? Kernel of injective group homomorphism If $\phi$ is a homomorphism from the group $G$ with identity $e$ to the group $G'$ with identity $e'$, then $\phi$ is injective if and only if $\ker\phi=$?  I think the $Ker\phi = \{x\in G:\phi(x)=1\}$  because you are looking at an identity then it is all reals $0$ does not work a because if $x=0, e'x=0$  but then i realize it is injective how does that affect the kernel? find command with regex quantifier e.g. {1,2} I have been trying to create a find command string that will find all files that end with a number 1-99 but exclude all others.  e.g. I want to find myfile1 myfile99 but not myfile456 and not myfilebackup  The regex I'm thinking of is myfile[1-9]{1,2} but I can't get this to work with find.  find . -regex '.*myfile[0-9]{1,2}' OR  find . -iname 'myfile[0-9]{1,2}'  From what I can see it's the {1,2} part that is not working.  (by the way can you use -name -regex interchangably?)  Any help appreciated. Some Git commands take commit ranges and one valid syntax is to separate two commit names with two dots .., and another syntax uses three dots ....  What are the differences between the two? Over time I realized a very annoying property of the Stack Overflow reputation system: Easy answers to popular question are rewarded with a lot more reputation points than actually great answers. In case anybody actually needs examples for this, here are two examples from :   gained me 420 rep, I invested 2 minutes writing it, and it only was a wild guess.   took me about an hour for the research and the math and gained me 40 rep.  Now I know that you are bound to get more rep for answers that are useful to more people, and I'd say that's fine. But the current situation is quite extreme: 30% of my reputation is from 5 of my 330 answers, and they are definitely far from being my best ones.  A final example that is not from my profile, but more extreme: Do you really think  is worth 40000 reputation?  My proposition to improve that situation would be to make the reputation gain from a single answer non-linear, maybe even have it capped at a certain point. I'm not sure on how that non-linear function should look exactly, and would leave good proposals for that to users with more experience than me.