Michael T

To my friends in the math/science

To my friends in the math/science section. OK - this isn't really a question, but as in Jeopardy I wanted to phrase this in the form of one!

I have gotten sick of

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when I post my answers. I doubt they will ever fix it.

To those for whom I have answered, I hope my answers were helpful. I enjoyed many of your interesting questions.

I won't say goodbye, but rather "au revoir"

Which is correct - electric current or electrical current. Why?

What, in general, is the difference between suffixes '-ic' and '-ical'.

There is a difference that is more pronounced with some words than with others.

Apparently the answer is never before. Each new question is so unique that it must be re-asked for its unique specialness rather than have the asker do a little work searching for similarly asked questions.

After all, finding the slope between (2,1) and (5,7) is such a completely different problem from finding the slope between (-3,2) and (8,12) that it is apparently necessary to ask a new question.

Is it really that hard for people to search and see what questions have been asked before?

What motivates people to just drop questions without at least trying to search for similar examples?

What software is out there to help me determine whether employees are misusing corporate assets. What sort of things should employers watch out for, besides the obvious. What types of reports do the best software programs generate?

My knowledge of the topic is a little dated, and I am trying to come up to date. In particular, what are considered the best monographs on the topic?

Why do otherwise sensible people make glaring writing errors that they only see 30 minutes before handing in their report? Asked otherwise, why does proofreading remain challenging?

There is a theorem that states that if p is prime, then the non-zero elements of Z_p form a field, and moreover, that field is cyclotomic. What is the main idea of the proof?

I have sold my algebra books, so I don't have ready access to the answer. How does one easily find a generator, for example, of

Z/(101Z) - the set of residues after dividing by 101?

I am on an FSA, and I have receipts dating back to 2006 for various medical expenses. I've never seen requests for documentation once the plan year has passed. I'd like to throw some of them out. Can I?

I need to change my router IP from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.8.1. Apparently this makes it possible to 'see' computers on a VPN that were masked when my router was at 192.168.1.1. There's nothing special about "8.1" - I have been told that setting above 8 will avoid collisions.