Re:The 17x17 challenge. "Worth $289.00. This is not a joke."
by PieSquared on Monday November 30, 2009 @10:12PM
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Combinatorics isn't, but... coloring grids of squares?
Not that I really have anything against abstract mathematics. It's still very cool, but it's just not going to get me very excited - or at least this exact branch of it, I guess.
Re:The 17x17 challenge. "Worth $289.00. This is not a joke."
by drbaskin on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @12:03AM
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I'm not one to say that coloring grids of squares sounds fascinating to me, but nandemo's point still holds -- as far as mathematics goes, it's pretty concrete.
Not that I really have anything against abstract mathematics. It's still very cool, but it's just not going to get me very excited - or at least this exact branch of it, I guess.