Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
by seph-reed on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:55PM
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Not saying it's correct. But given a world of infinite choices, sometimes it's helpful to look around at what's rising in importance on it's own. Even if there's no good reason.
Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
by perl4ever on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:06PM
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What is the reason for bringing up numerology? It was apparently prompted by the Wikipedia links, but I don't see why.
Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes
by cyphar on Saturday September 07, 2019 @02:56AM
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The comment further up the chain (with the wikipedia links) was referencing the "importance" of 33 and 42 because they show up in quite a few fields -- assigning importance to certain numerical values is a kind of watered-down numerology (the fact that 42 was interesting in this problem doesn't necessarily mean that its "interesting-ness" transfers to the number itself).
(But I didn't bring it up, someone else did -- I was just responding to the argument that "there might be something to it".)
As for "hippies are pretty decent at sniffing things out", just because someone was correct about something in the past (despite a lack of evidence) does not make them correct today if they still lack evidence.
The burden of proof is on numerologists to show that they are correct, not on everyone else to disprove it.