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Re:Cleo (Mathematician) by Recursing on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:10AM (#50006784)
As a non-mathematician I'm confused by this Wikipedia article. Isn't it trivial to fabricate arbitrarily hard integrals by starting from a function with known values and differentiating it?

I understand that people enjoyed the prank, but I think the article doesn't make it clear enough that he was just trolling and wasn't actually solving hard mathematical problems

Re:Cleo (Mathematician) by seanhunter on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:23PM (#50007813)
Yes it is. The existence of a wikipedia page for such a minor piece of internet trolling seems bizarre.