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A commercial airport being any airport that has regular scheduled passenger flights.  The mathematics of  got me thinking: is the network of scheduled flights a connected graph?  That is, is there a pair (or triplet or even larger set) of airports such that they only have scheduled flights with each other?  Or can you get from any airport to any other?  Ignore vagaries like cargo and general aviation. I'm looking for two airports that I can shuttle between, but would have to drive (or sail) to get to one or the other of them. Footnote in tabular environment What is the difference between Python's list methods append and extend? What's the difference between the list methods append() and extend()? Who do you have to contact to obtain a license to stream manga? I am curious to know who the copyright holder to a manga is: is it the mangaka, or the publisher (such as Kodansha, Shonen Jump, etc)?  Who do you have to contact to obtain a license for streaming it? 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What does "causally connected" or "causes" really mean? In a different thread, a user stated the following about events preceding or following other events:     However, if the two events are causally connected ("event A causes event B"), the causal order is preserved (i.e. "event A precedes event B") in all frames of reference.   My question is what does "causally connected" really mean? What does "causes" mean? Further, given that we know that we can have instantaneous effects in typical quantum processes (e.g. flip the polarizer, effect on another a reading light years away, even though we cannot transmit useful information with this), does that not constitute "causing" for the purpose of this statement? I have two laptops: Dell xps M1210 and Dell vostro 1400. On MS windows the output volume is so loud that I just need to set volume to around 20% to listen music and watch videos. I use Bose TriPort In-Ear Headphones most of the times. On ubuntu, even if I set 100% volume on the multimedia player, on the desktop volume manager as well, and also on the ncurses GUI of alsa mixer, I get very low volume output. Sometimes while playing some vidoes the volume is so low that I barely hear any words. I have struggled for two years since I started to use ubuntu to solve this mystery. The same sound card which gives excellent sound on MS windows fails miserably on GNU/Linux. Few weeks back I bought an Asus 100PX EEE PC. To my surprise even it also has the same issue. I have tried many versions of ubuntu and also I have done manual compiles of alsa modules without any success. I have asked and read about it in every possible forums and howto's. Nothing has helped me to address the issue. Prove $\sum_{i=1}^n i! \cdot i = (n+1)! - 1$? Prove the summation:  $$\sum_{i=1}^n i! \cdot i = (n+1)! - 1$$ using induction.   base case:  $n=1$: \begin{align*} \sum_{i=1}^1 i! \cdot i &amp;= (1+1)! - 1 \\ 1 &amp;= 2 - 1 \\ 1 &amp;= 1 \end{align*}   This is a question from my test review packet, currently have the base case completed and I am a bit lost on where to go from there. Any help/hints are appreciated. What's the best way to check if a String represents an integer in Java? I normally use the following idiom to check if a String can be converted to an integer.  public boolean isInteger( String input ) {     try {         Integer.parseInt( input );         return true;     }     catch( Exception e ) {         return false;     } }   Is it just me, or does this seem a bit hackish?  What's a better way?    See my answer (with benchmarks, based on the  by ) to see why I've reversed my position and accepted  to this problem.  I think this original code will be used by most people because it's quicker to implement, and more maintainable, but it's orders of magnitude slower when non-integer data is provided. I have the Blender 2.8 version from the 21st Sep 2018 I was looking forward to render a test sequence but cannot find a render button anywhere? Does anyone know where to find it? C# - Keyword usage virtual+override vs. new What are differences between declaring a method in a base type "virtual" and then overriding it in a child type using the "override" keyword as opposed to simply using the "new" keyword when declaring the matching method in the child type? Conveying "under the radar" in a less colloquial way Referencing equation counter value in custom float caption I have used the float package to create an equation float, eqfloat, so I can add captions to equations. Within the eqfloat I used the equation environment to typeset the math.  I want to keep the right hand arabic numbering within parentheses that is added by the equation environment but I also would like the eqfloat caption below the equation to use the same number as the equation environment.  The following code achieves this by making the eqfloat use the same counter as the equation environment and then manually adjusting the equation numbering within each eqfloat.   Is there a better way to make the eqfloat caption reference the current value of the equation environment counter?  Is it possible to prevent the custom float environment from increasing the counter and only to reference the current value of the equation counter?  \documentclass[a4paper]{article}  \usepackage[margin=25pt, labelfont=bf]{caption} \usepackage{amsmath, amsfonts, pifont, float, color, url} \usepackage[pdftex, plainpages=false, pdfpagelabels, bookmarks=true]{hyperref}  \newfloat{eqfloat}{h}{eqflts} \floatname{eqfloat}{Equation} \makeatletter \let\c@eqfloat\c@equation \makeatother  \begin{document}     ...     \begin{eqfloat}         \begin{equation}             E = mc^2         \end{equation}         \addtocounter{equation}{-1}         \caption{Equation caption here.}         \label{eq:example}     \end{eqfloat}  \end{document} How can I derive effect sizes in lme4 and describe the magnitude of fixed effects? Find the value of $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{e^{-x^2}}{1+x^2} dx$ . Find the value of $\int_{-\infty}^{\infty} \frac{e^{-x^2}}{1+x^2} dx$     My attempt  First, I know the existence of this integral since $$ \mid \int_{-a}^{a} \frac{e^{-x^2}}{1+x^2} dx \mid \;\; \leq\;\;  \mid \int_{-a}^{a} \frac{1}{1+x^2} dx \mid$$  Next, let $R &gt;0 $ be an arbitrary and $\gamma_1(t) = -R(1-t) + Rt , \;\; 0 \leq t \leq1$ and $\gamma_2(t)= Re^{i\pi (t-1)}, \;\; 1 \leq t \leq 2 $.  So, take $f(z) = \frac{e^{-z^2}}{1+z^2}$.   I tried to find the value or upper bound of norm of $$\int_{\gamma_2} \frac{e^{-z^2}}{1+z^2} dz$$.  However, $$ \lvert\int_{\gamma_2} \frac{e^{-z^2}}{1+z^2} dz\rvert \leq  \frac{\text{max}\lvert e^{-z^2}\rvert}{R^2-1}\pi R = \frac{e^{R^2}}{R^2-1}\pi R $$ So, I can't proceed this.  May I ask you how to solve this? Can prematurely powering down a computer cause bad sectors in a hard drive?