Re: [math-fun] We can't have mental gymnastics without a floor exercise.
14 Jan
2014
14 Jan
'14
2:38 p.m.
Gareth> On 14/01/2014 14:02, Bill Gosper wrote:
Not bad. But these four terms simplify to Julian's (very unhomely) two term solution privately reported at 23:24 PST.
I'm a little surprised FullSimplify fails this.
It's obvious how to lose one term (move the constant 1 inside one of the floors); how do you get it down to 2? -- g Sum[Floor[y + k/n], {k, 0, n - 1}] == Floor[n*y] (Mma (FunctionExpand) developers: N.B.) --rwg
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