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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by gavagai691 on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:43PM (#33513593)
There is a documentary, but I can't attest to its quality (I haven't watched it yet): http://www.zalafilms.com/films/countingabout.html.
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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by kenjackson on Monday November 07, 2022 @05:52PM (#33513682)
Hmm... thanks, it looks quite good.

But why is streaming rental for 24 hours? Why can't we do rentals for two weeks for videos? Is there a good reason to make it so difficult to stream? I don't want to watch it a million times. I just want to make it through once, but it takes me several sittings typically to finish a movie.

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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by gavagai691 on Monday November 07, 2022 @06:19PM (#33513925)
I was thinking about watching this documentary two years ago. That sounds like the reason that I decided not to.
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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by mikeyouse on Monday November 07, 2022 @09:06PM (#33515143)
Looks like it's available on Archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/countingfrominfinityyitangzhanga...

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Re:Monumental advance in number theory posted to the ArXiv b... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:46AM (#33517860)
> But why is streaming rental for 24 hours?

Money / capitalism.

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