Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 (2019)

Re:Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 3... by airocker on Sunday September 27, 2020 @07:56PM (#24611312)

"""Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from the supercomputer Deep Thought, specially built for this purpose. It takes Deep Thought 7 1⁄2 million years to compute and check the answer, which turns out to be 42.""" . Any co-incidence 42 is still unsolved?

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Re:Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 3... by neotriple on Sunday September 27, 2020 @08:02PM (#24611353)

42 has been solved. See the update at the bottom of the page.

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Re:Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 3... by jl2718 on Sunday September 27, 2020 @08:20PM (#24611498)

Wasn’t the earth the supercomputer that was trying to come up with the question to the answer of 42? If they just found it, does that mean that they’re done with us?

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Re:Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 3... by pricechild on Monday September 28, 2020 @04:45AM (#24614439)

It's been a while... but I'm pretty sure the opening of the book explained that there was a theory that should both the question and the answer exist in the same universe, it would instantly collapse on itself and begin anew.

There was also a theory that this had already happened.

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Re:Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 3... by em-bee on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:05AM (#24612851)

yup, that's why earth is now scheduled for destruction to make space for an intergalactic highway.

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Re:Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 3... by edoceo on Sunday September 27, 2020 @09:39PM (#24612059)

So long! And thanks for all the fish.

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