Bottle, Burger, Beer, Hot Dog Viral Puzzle – Mind Your Decisions
"As viral puzzles became popular, mathematicians joined the game too. Here’s a fun puzzle that has been widely shared."
https://mindyourdecisions.com/blog/2023/07/06/bottle-burger-beer-hot-dog-viral-puzzle/Open linkView original on lemmy.sdf.org
The first 3 lines are trivial, but it's been a while since I did any calculus. Would you use integration by parts for it?
Wolfram gives me:
::: spoiler spoiler 5/2 🥧 :::
Calculus was 20 years ago for me... ::: spoiler spoiler :::
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.
Ah, that's the trick I was missing. Thx!