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 Entrevista/Ludmila Pontremolez: a engenheira do ITA que não "virou suco", trabalhou na Nasa e fundou a Zippi - Fintechs Brasil
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Can you explain ultrafilters in mathematics with examples? - Quora
https://archive.ph/2jwHB

‎Alon Amit (אלון עמית)‎'s answer to How do you prove that [math]\displaystyle\lim_\limits{n\to\infty}e^{-n}\sum_{k=0}^{n}\frac{n^k}{k!}=\frac{1}{2}[/math]? - Quora
https://archive.ph/g3gEW

What is metric space topology? - Quora
https://archive.ph/hutwV

'Aos 12 anos fui vendida por R$ 40 ao meu marido' - BBC News Brasil
https://archive.ph/4ebh9

Man Makes Contact With The International Space Station Using Homemade Antenna | IFLScience
https://archive.ph/oVApp

Since numbers are technically infinite, does that make the Collatz conjecture unsolvable because there are infinite possibilities to disprove or solve the conjecture? - Quora
https://archive.ph/98jvS

3 visões para a justiça vão definir a democracia no Brasil
https://archive.ph/cNkcS

Why is the fraction 1/4 in the Cantor set? - Quora
https://archive.ph/3uz51

What is so cool about the Cantor set? - Quora
https://archive.ph/FFlYQ

What exactly is the Cantor set? - Quora
https://archive.ph/avZrF

Mathematics: How do I explain the Cantor diagonalisation in the simplest way? - Quora
https://archive.ph/BbYRI

How can the Cantor set be uncountable, yet its complement is the union of only countably many disjoint open intervals (real analysis, general topology, Cantor set, math)? - Quora
https://archive.ph/4ZXjQ

Is the Cantor set homeomorphic to the set of all irrational numbers in [0,1]? (Assuming Euclidean topology, and homeomorphic means there exists a bijection that is continuous and an open map) - Quora
https://archive.ph/bfVn0

When the Cantor set is constructed by removing the 'closed' third, what happens to the cardinality? - Quora
https://archive.ph/1zfdp

Does 1/7 belong to the cantor set? - Quora
https://archive.ph/vndFx

The Cantor set is created by repeatedly removing one-third of the middle of the interval. The erasing position is always centered. Then, will the basic properties such as uncountability be maintained even if the position is randomly set? - Quora
https://archive.ph/mJcvD

Why drawing is the perfect digital detox
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If I was in a room made of mirrors, and I shut off the lights, why wouldn’t the residual light continue to bounce off the mirrors and illuminate the room? - Quora
https://archive.ph/FkUU2

What happens if the universe implodes? - Quora
https://archive.ph/HqeWq

Should I read the Harry Potter series considering the fact that I have already seen the movies numerous times? - Quora
https://archive.ph/Wkeau

What did Dumbledore mean when he told Voldemort there are things worse than death? - Quora
https://archive.ph/abynR

Is Saitama weaker than the Grand Priest? - Quora
https://archive.ph/czBtB

What is the significance of boson spin? The Higgs Boson has spin 0; photons, gluons, W and Z bosons, have spin 1; the hypothetical graviton is said to have spin 2. What significance do these numbers have? - Quora
https://archive.ph/8cWG0

Why is 'New Math' so confusing? - Quora
https://archive.ph/E2bQG

Why do all the planets spin around stars in the same plane? also the same thing for galaxies? - Quora
https://archive.ph/cnAJM

How do programming languages understand ASCII? - Quora
https://archive.ph/BUcOB

What is the most complex area of mathematics? - Quora
https://archive.ph/WxJ21

What are some ways that programming was better in the past? - Quora
https://archive.ph/1A9nC

Can AI ever become conscious? - Quora
https://archive.ph/nUt04

Are animals self aware? - Quora
https://archive.ph/ETNgw

In QM, does particles have momentum and location at the same time but when we measure it and know the momentum then the location becomes uncertain. My question is an uncertain location of particle doesn't mean that they don't have location, right? - Quora
https://archive.ph/SK7tT

What do you think about the fields medalist Efim Zelmanov? - Quora
https://archive.ph/QYwwR