Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by lemoncucumber on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:36AM (#18292252)

This tweet is misleadingly worded. The solution was not posted on 4chan, but rather by an anonymous user on a “wiki mainly devoted to anime” as the original tweet quoted by this tweet makes clear.

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by rofo1 on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:38AM (#18292268)

It was indeed posted on 4chan, as you can see here - http://4watch.org/superstring/

That's the whole thread

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by rtkwe on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:44AM (#18292337)

The original tweet is somewhat confused though too because the linked wiki is an archive/summary of a thread on /sci/ which is one of the 4chan message boards. It's copied there because of the ephemeral nature of posts on the actual boards so you can't provide a permanent link, thus linking to the next best source seems the best choice.

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by lemoncucumber on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @02:51PM (#18295256)

That makes more sense, thanks for the clarification. The tweet saying that it was originally posted on a "wiki" and then linking to a wiki made me think that that wiki was the actual source.

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by acali on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:40AM (#18292293)

change "wiki" to "message-board" and "mainly" to "originally" and it becomes accurate. It came from the /sci/ board on 4chan.

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Re:Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved ... by ma2rten on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @09:40AM (#18292289)

The follow-up to the other tweet says it was copied to that wiki from 4chan.

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