About the Rules & Moderation category (Part 1)

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#17000

a plurality of tumblr still thinks 0.4 is even btw

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#17001

n=1, 1x3=3+1, 4/2=2?

#17002

keep doing it

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#17003

incidentally you’ll find that 2/2 = 1

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#17004

oh i misread like a walnut

#17005

look i havent eaten anything but toast in the past…

i should really eat something other then toast hours

#17006

i thought it was “is there anything that could reach 1, which seemed” super simple, but then i misread 1 as 2 mentally and it went downhill from there

#17007

did i ever tell you i’m bad at math

#17008

(anyway the joke is that despite being a simple seeming problem it’s unsolved and would probably require at minimum a new field of math to make headway)

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#17009

i mean infinite theoretical numbers is more then 20

#17010

so unless you can find something that works in a few turns for every number, its gonna take a while

#17011

proving it positively or negatively requires dealing with infinities. which is always fun

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#17012

you can prove that if it ever goes to a power of 2 that decays to 1. but if it was that easy it wouldn’t be unsolved

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#17013

it’s commonly done in cs classes. so if it broke for like. 147 we’d know by now. probably.

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#17014

stupid ai taking over human jobs of counting the same numbers millions of times to make proof

#17015

as the poll indicates no is my guess but it’s presumably very difficult if not currently impossible to prove

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#17016

have we tried 73131291959182513691 yet??

#17017

you should’ve seen how upset the math community got when people used computers to prove the four color theorem

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#17018

noooo math is about human thinking you can’t just plug it into a computer noooo

mathematicians plugging in literally every possible case for the four-color theorem

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#17019

what’s the thing for (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)² again