I will be going to Switzerland soon, and will need Swiss Francs before I leave.  Where can I bet the best rate to buy Swiss Francs?  I live in SF Bay Area.
Recently my wife and I traveled to Italy and before we left we got about 85% of our money in travelers checks and the other 15% we carried on in cash. When we arrived there, no one would take our travelers checks and many places did not accept credit cards. Eventually, we found some currency exchange places that would take the travelers checks and give us Euro's, but at a 7-15% fee, which was not really a very fun surprise.   While I was under the impression that it is safer to use travelers checks, it seems that they were not really accepted (the usual explanation being fraud). So the question is, is it best to just exchange your currency at home and carry all of it with you when you travel or are there other alternatives to carrying cash that are safer and cost effective?
Prove that for any positive integer $n$, $$2\sqrt{n + 1} − 2 \le 1 +\frac 1 {\sqrt 2}+\frac 1 {\sqrt 3}+ \dots +\frac 1 {\sqrt n} \le 2\sqrt n − 1$$ Progress I think Riemann sum should be used for the middle term. I got the limit as $n\to \infty$ of the function inside using Riemann sum but what I cannot get are the lower and upper bound. Is it possible to assign a base class object to a derived class reference with an explicit typecast in C#?.  I have tried it and it creates a run-time error. Show that G is a group, if G is finite, the operation is associative, and cancellation law holds Let $G$ be a non-empty finite set with an associative binary operation so that cancellation law holds, i.e. $ab=ac$ or $ba=ca$ implies $b=c$, for any choices of $a,b,c$ in $G$. Assume that there is an identity element $e$ in $G$. Show that $G$ is a group.  Proof: To show $G$ is a group, conditions must hold. Suppose that $ab=ac$, then $b=eb=(a^{-1}a)b =a^{-1}(ab)=a^{-1}(ac) =(a^{-1}a)c=ec=c$. So left cancellation holds in $G$.  2) Suppose $ba=ca$, then $b=be=b(aa^{-1}) =(ba)a^{-1}=(ca)a^{-1} =c(aa^{-1})=ce=c$. So right cancellation holds in $G$.  3) If $a$ exists in $G$ then $aa^{-1}=a^{-1}a=e$, where $a$ is an inverse of $a^{-1}$. Since inverses are unique, $(a^{-1})^{-1}=a$.  4) Let $x$ be the inverse of $ab$. Then $(ab)x=e$. By associativity we have $a(bx)=aa^{-1}$. Through left cancellation we have  $bx=a^{-1}bx=ea^{-1}=b(b^{-1}a^{-1})$ and $x=b^{-1}a^{-1}$.  Thus $(ab)^{-1}=b^{-1}a^{-1}$. So all conditions hold, $G$ is a group.  Is this proof correct? I know to show $G$ is a group these conditions have to be met. This is all I have to show right? Unable to activate Windows 8 Get Edge / Vertex / Face from mouse position Masking problems I am working with masking. Here is my node setting with the mask.   And here is my node settings  And what am i getting is this.    I tried invert node and many settings. It just doesnt work. Where am i going wrong How do you show that $e^{-1/x^2}$ is differentiable at $0$? Define the real valued function $f(x)$ by $f(x) = e^{-1/x^2}$ if $x \ne 0$ and $0$ if $x = 0$.    How do you show that $e^{-1/x^2}$ is differentiable at $0$? How do you show that this function is infinitely differentiable? Choosing GeoCoding service? I'm looking for a web service providing a full address based on coordinates (and reverse).  I'm ready to pay for that service.  I don't want to use Google's API. What's the difference between a Long Term Support Release and a Normal Release? What are the differences between an Ubuntu Long Term Support release (LTS) and a normal release? When to Garbage Collect The preimage of continuous function on a closed set is closed. Take a look at the following screenshot I took from Google Webmaster Tools "Remove URLs" page:   None of these were performed by me or others who have access to GWT.  How do these removal requests happen without us doing any requests?  Why is that happening?  How to stop that or is there any point in stopping that? Сanonical form of a quadratic form by Lagrange's method This is just an eg. to understand how to solve it.  There is a quadratic form as below we need to bring to canonical form using Lagrange's method and find the coordinate transformation.   Then find the positive &amp; negative indexes, rank of the quadratic form. Finnally, to investigate sign-definiteness of the quadratic form by two ways: according to it's canonical form and the criterion of Sylvester: $4x_{1}^2+2x_{2}^2+10x_{3}^2-4x_{1}x_{2}-12x_{1}x_{3}-8x_{2}x_{3}$  Any clarification on how to do it are very welcomed. Choosing variables to include in a multiple linear regression model I am currently working to build a model using a multiple linear regression. After fiddling around with my model, I am unsure how to best determine which variables to keep and which to remove.  My model started with 10 predictors for the DV. When using all 10 predictors, four were considered significant. If I remove only some of the obviously-incorrect predictors, some of my predictors that were not initially significant become significant. Which leads me to my question: How does one go about determining which predictors to include in their model? It seemed to me you should run the model once with all predictors, remove those that are not significant, and then rerun. But if removing only some of those predictors makes others significant, I am left wondering if I am taking the wrong approach to all this.  I believe that  thread is similar to my question, but I am unsure I am interpreting the discussion correctly. Perhaps this is more of an experimental design topic, but maybe someone has some experience they can share. The dialog box in question here is the one you get with the context menu option "open with other applications". Wine seems to have inserted more than a dozen or so entries for each application I install, which makes it a pain to find the correct application:     What can I do to remove the duplicates?     Update: Neither of the two solutions really work. The bug is interesting, but the symptoms does not match my problem (I'm not having problem with uninstalling applications, but rather the things that are inserted after installing them), and with the other one, all references to the Wine application are removed, which actually makes the problem worse (although it may be an acceptable solution if nothing else can be found). So this is still an open question; any takers? How to execute multiple statements in a MATLAB anonymous function? I'd like to do something like this:  &gt;&gt; foo = @() functionCall1() functionCall2()   So that when I said:  &gt;&gt; foo()   It would execute functionCall1() and then execute functionCall2().  (I feel that I need something like the )  EDIT:  functionCall1 and functionCall2 are not necessarily functions that return values. Links in newsletter preview link to YouTube The problem: The links at the bottom of the Stack&nbsp;Exchange newsletter link to a YouTube video instead of the right place on the website. I´m not sure if this is an oversight or a clever hack.  Screenshot: Why Doesn't a Bootable USB Boot This is a canonical question   How do I jailbreak an iPhone or iPad (to install a package manager like Cydia or Sileo for tweaks) on:   iOS/iPadOS 13 iOS 12 iOS 11 iOS 10 iOS 9 iOS 8 When I compile with LuaLaTeX and TL2016 this MWE   \documentclass{article}  \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec} \usepackage{luatex85} \usepackage{shellesc}  \setmainfont{Minion Pro}  \begin{document}  \huge{huge} \textbf{\huge{huge}}  \Huge{Huge} \textbf{\Huge{Huge}}   \end{document}   I have this .pdf.     Any help? With TL2015 all is correct. Thanks