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Re:Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture by bananabiscuit on Thursday August 27, 2020 @02:40PM (#24297059)
The collate conjecture gets a pass from me because I think there’s an even more funded problem that is even more useless: calculating pi to more and more digits. I doubt any practical application needs more than 10 digits.
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Re:Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture by heavenlyblue on Friday August 28, 2020 @01:34AM (#24301662)
It’s proven that Pi is transcendent, while it isn’t proven Collatz always finishes
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Re:Computer scientists attempt to corner the Collatz conjecture by DreadY2K on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:43AM (#24301439)
But what if I want to show off to my friends how smart I am by rattling off a gazillion digits of pi off of the top of my head? I need more than 10 digits to do that...

/s

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