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Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Ok, we've switched the URL from https://math.mit.edu/~drew/ and removed the housing from 42 above.

why did you switch from the mit site to twitter ? (i'm currently blocked on twitter - they want a phone number and are blocking all content till i provide one)

There's more information there.

Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Ok, we've switched the URL from https://math.mit.edu/~drew/ and removed the housing from 42 above.

Have you considered surfacing how titles will be changed when they're posted?

I'm not sure I understand your question, but we've posted countless times about this and are happy to answer about specific cases. You can find a lot of information via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and similar searches.

Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Have you considered surfacing how titles will be changed when they're posted?

I'm not sure I understand your question, but we've posted countless times about this and are happy to answer about specific cases. You can find a lot of information via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and similar searches.

During the submission process where the form say a title is too long you could also be displaying how any transformations will affect it.

Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Same question. People seem to be researching that kind of stuff (numbers that are sums of 3 cubes). Why?

I only recently heard what I think is a pretty solid answer to this question [1] that put it this way: We've pretty much got addition nailed down. We're pretty solid on multiplication. However, we are surprisingly weak mathematically when we try to put the two together; you can write down some extremely small math statements that baffled mathematicians for centuries, and for such statements that we have solutions for…

Addition and multiplication (i.e. arithmetic) over the integers are all that are necessary to express first order logic and allowed Gödel to express his incompleteness theorems at such a fundamental level. The logical power of arithmetic is likely why many seemingly simple questions about arithmetic can have very complicated answers or no definitive answers at all.

Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Could someone elaborate on why this is interesting? The linked page doesn't have much context.

There's a large gulf between the simplicity of the question and the difficulty of obtaining the answer. Whenever a simple question cannot be answered via any known simple method, it seems as if one has unexpectedly come up against something deeper and more fundamental.

Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Have you considered surfacing how titles will be changed when they're posted?

I'm not sure I understand your question, but we've posted countless times about this and are happy to answer about specific cases. You can find a lot of information via https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... and similar searches.

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Re: 42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

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Please don't criticize others for using features of the website you are visiting. If you bring a keyhole to view a landscape you won't get the full experience either. Rendering pages is a matter that should be solved by the client.

It seems to be readable on iOS Safari. Scrolling sideways works fine. Worse than a regular quote, but not actually that bad. It is a client issue if it’s more broken than that.

Same on Android Firefox, although it is a bit annoying to have to scroll back and forth to read multi-line quotes formatted like this.
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