I'm 19 years old and recently opened a secured credit card with my local credit union in order to build credit. I payed off my balance last month and this one in full just because I was already paying last month so why not pay off my whole balance right? Well I didn't use my card again at all and now I received my billing statement and it's 0.00 that needs to be paid. Is this bad? It shows how much I used over the month and that I already paid it off but should I have left a little bit or used my card again so I would have something to pay on the bill?
I'm a college student and I just got my first credit card (through Chase). The only reason I got the card is to try and build my credit score. I also have a checking account with Chase, and they let me pay off my credit card any time I want.  For example, right now I have a balance of $92 on my credit card, but my bill won't come until September 2, and the payment isn't actually due until September 27. But through their website I could go ahead and pay it off with money from my checking account.  My question is, is it better for my credit score if I pay off that $92 balance right now, or should I wait for the bill, or does it not matter either way?
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This is what I have so far: Let $m = nq + r$, then $a^m - 1 = a^{nq + r}- 1 = a^{nq}a^r - 1 = a^{nq}a^r - a^r + a^r - 1 = a^r(a^{nq} - 1) + a^r - 1$. Since $0\le r\lt n$, $r = 0$ then $a^m - 1$ = $a^{nq} - 1$ so $a^m$ = $a^{nq}$ . Thus $m = nq$ hence $n\mid m$. How do you check the windows version in Win32 at runtime? How do you check the windows version in Win32 at runtime? What was Mr. Anderson (Neo) selling on discs to Choi? What is this triangle icon [Samsung Galaxy S9+]? export CLASSPATH=.;../somejar.jar;../mysql-connector-java-5.1.6-bin.jar java -Xmx500m folder.subfolder../dit1/some.xml cd ..   is the above statement for setting the classpath to already existing classpath in linux is correct or not I have two tables, movies and categories, and I get an ordered list by categoryID first and then by Name.  The movie table has three columns ID, Name and CategoryID. The category table has two columns ID and Name.  I tried something like the following, but it didn't work.  var movies = _db.Movies.OrderBy( m =&gt; { m.CategoryID, m.Name }) Replace non-numeric with empty string Quick add on requirement in our project.  A field in our DB to hold a phone number is set to only allow 10 characters.  So, if I get passed "(913)-444-5555" or anything else, is there a quick way to run a string through some kind of special replace function that I can pass it a set of characters to allow?  Regex? sum of double precision gives weird results How to load a .NET assembly for reflection operations and subsequently unload it? Changing Network Interfaces name Ubuntu 16.04 I tried to change network interfaces name on this new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version but doesn't have the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.  So, I tried to use /lib/udev/write_net_rules but it not exist.  Why do I need this modification? Because I'm using a tool to Simulate virtual platforms that use flex licensing and the authentication need to be in eth0 interface name.  Any suggestion?  The command ip link returns:  user@laptop:~$ ip link  1: lo: &lt;LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: enp6s0: &lt;NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether b8:2a:xx:yy:xx:yy brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 3: wlp7s0: &lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DORMANT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 5c:e0:xx:yy:xx:yy brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff  user@laptop:~$ ifconfig  enp6s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:2a:xx:yy:xx:yy   lo        Link encap:Local Loopback   wlp7s0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5c:e0:xx:yy:xx:yy     (Some information were ignored and suppressed)  I already tried some links: How do I prevent Apache from answering requests for domains I don't host? How do I give text or an image a transparent background using CSS? 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