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re: Mathematicians Are So Close to Cracking This 82-Year-Old Riddle

Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:11 pm to
Posted by Major Dutch Schaefer
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:11 pm to
Didn’t Will solve this is Good Will Hunting?
Posted by HeadSlash
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:12 pm to
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Posted by Stealth Matrix
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:23 pm to
This dude really trying to break the universe with math in 2020
Posted by upgrayedd
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:25 pm to
Posted by G The Tiger Fan
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:26 pm to
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That looks a Calc 1 problem. Not too hard to solve.
Brains Strowman figured it out a long time ago with no problem.
Posted by Rouge
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:28 pm to
This might involve some mess with the concept of infinity

Infinity / 2 is still infinity.

Therefore, you can never get back down to one.
Posted by charlottetiger
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:28 pm to
Where is Will Hunting when you need him?
Posted by GoldenGuy
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:30 pm to
I swear Mathematicians are retarded.

Posted by deeprig9
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:32 pm to
Zero isn't real and pine cone spirals.
Posted by yankeeundercover
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:38 pm to
So if it’s a riddle, someone created it with an “answer” in mind... right?

Mathematic riddles are not like typical word/language riddles where, if given the right explanation, a person could say the answer is “a donkey” (or obviously whatever)

It’s not like you can ask a mathematical riddle and be like, “Hahaha, you dummy! 1 is actually 7!”

How is it possible that the “riddle” has remained unsolved for 82 fricking years?

I smell bullshite.
Posted by BobABooey
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:39 pm to
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Name a subject in advanced math, and he’s written about it.

Has he written the solution to the Collatz Conjecture?

Didn’t think so.

Fraud.
Posted by dbbuilder79
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:47 pm to
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The rule is this: If the number is even, then divide it by 2, and if the number is odd, then multiply by 3 and add 1.


Isn't this the same rule for the amount of secks partners a man (vag/2) and woman (peni×3+1) has had?
Posted by chinese58
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 6:51 pm to
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in 2006 he won the Fields Medal


Posted by Havoc
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:00 pm to
There are no counter examples, for frick’s sake.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:06 pm to
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7


22 - 11 - 34 - 17 - 52 - 26 - 13 - 40 - 20 - 10....which was the example given earlier and leads to 1.

Any power of 2 takes you back to 2^0.

If n is odd 3n + 1 is even.

Posted by JOJO Hammer
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:07 pm to
Posted by rantfan
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:08 pm to
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Posted by TigerstuckinMS
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:36 pm to
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There are no counter examples, for frick’s sake.

There are no KNOWN counter examples. It's a subtle distinction, but I'm confident that if the OT can understand PEMDAS, it can understand this.
Posted by IAmNERD
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:48 pm to
How far on the spectrum do you have to be to think about that type of shite?
Posted by SuperSaint
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Posted on 8/8/20 at 7:51 pm to
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How far on the spectrum do you have to be to think about that type of shite?



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