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Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by FabHK on Saturday April 19, 2025 @11:11AM (#43736943)
> Placing a penny on top of skyscraper

Great intuitive metaphor, btw.

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Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by stuartjohnson12 on Saturday April 19, 2025 @11:54AM (#43737231)
I wanted to see how this compares.

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Burj Khalifa - 828m

US Penny - 1.52mm (0.00152m)

Adding a US penny to the Burj Khalifa would therefore make it 0.000183% taller.

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Original work - 4,000,000,000,000,000,000

OP's work - 70,000,000,000

OP's work added 0.00000175% to the current record.

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Conclusion: adding a penny to the Burj Khalifa is actually >100x more constructive than this effort.

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Re:Show HN: New world record – verified Goldbach Conjecture ... by Philpax on Saturday April 19, 2025 @03:55PM (#43739001)
Good lord, man, you don't have to be that much of an asshole about it.
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