Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is?

Re:Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is? by contingencies on Saturday May 07, 2022 @07:18AM (#31293649)

The Collatz Conjecture or the 3n+1 problem was mentioned last week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31208035

Any positive integer you take, you end up in a 1-4-2-1 loop. It's not proved yet but there's no number found yet that satisfies otherwise.

Very interesting. What's the use case of this?

Impressing ladies at the bar with your 'deep connection'.

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Re:Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is? by 4jsfgja5aj on Sunday May 08, 2022 @09:51AM (#31303957)

Rather than just downvote and otherwise be silent (I didn't up or down vote), I'll provide some direct feedback. First, as a reader, I almost never want to encounter a weird "wink-wink know what I mean?" type of joke out of the blue. Second, your "ladies" comment has a tone drawn from the era where cigarettes, martini lunches, and casual harassment were the norm. My rule is: if I find something that I write really funny, don't send.

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Re:Think of a Number. How Do Math Magicians Know What It Is? by contingencies on Monday May 09, 2022 @08:28AM (#31313259)

Err, OK keyboard warrior. I think you read way too much in to this. This is PC gone nuts. If I were to have said "impressing handsome men with your magic force" would it have been offensive to you? I think you need go grow up. To spell it out for you, the amusement is not from the closing scenario (whichever pronouns and adjectives are selected) but the reduction of grand theory to the relative triviality of human relations. Enjoy your zealous mission... whatever your point was.

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