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"As viral puzzles became popular, mathematicians joined the game too. Here’s a fun puzzle that has been widely shared."

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[-] parsnip283874 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t think that would work. You just use the fact that the integral from negative to positive infinity of sin(x)/x is pi, so from 0 to infinity it is pi/2, which you can derive from using Feynman’s trick for computing weird integrals like these.

[-] delial 1 points 1 year ago

Ah, that's the trick I was missing. Thx!

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