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Weekly cycle of alivelearn.net traffic

Number of people visiting this blog fluctuates periodically with period 1 week. Basically on weekends few people visit.
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Solution of Basel problem by Euler (from wikipedia)

Basel problem: find the exact value of $$1+\frac{1}{2^2}+\frac{1}{3^2}+\frac{1}{4^2}+… = ?$$ Solution: We have by Taylor expansion: $$\sin(x)=x-\frac{x^3}{3!}+\frac{x^5}{5!}-\frac{x^7}{7!}+…$$ Dividing through x we have, $$\frac{\sin(x)}{
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i to i

What is the value of $$i^i$$ \(i\) being the imagery unit. This beautiful number indeed equals to $$i^i=e^{-\pi/2}=0.2079…$$
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Why is temporal lobe called “temporal”

The name of “temporal lobe” follows “temporal bone”. But why “temporal”? The reason is that when people get old, the first region in the head which grows white hair is this region (see picture below). Thus this reg
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no tissue paper

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