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Re:Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when y... by bjourne on Friday August 21, 2020 @05:24PM (#24239020)
If it makes you feel better, famous Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdös didn't understand it either. One of his colleagues had to write a computer program simulating it before he accepted it to be true.
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Re:Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when y... by BrandoElFollito on Saturday August 22, 2020 @03:52PM (#24246777)
Not only him, the publication of the paradox in a column in Science (if memory serves me right) dragged thousands of condescending answers from top mathematicians (some of them apologized afterwards, including the one who called the journalist the goat of the paradox)
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