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Optimal result (Posted on 2018-06-04)

A stick of length L is broken into n equal parts.

What is the maximal product of their lengths?

No Solution Yet Submitted by Ady TZIDON

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re(4): What Ady wants (spoiler?)

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(In reply to re(3): What Ady wants (spoiler?) by Steve Herman)

YOU THINK THAT "(L/n)^n with respect to n is just (L/n)^n.

IT IS NOT!

see any textbook re differentiating f(x)^g(x)

Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2018-06-07 01:49:59

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