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I wonder how many attempted proofs attempt to solve through this bottom up approach rather than top-down.
It sometimes amazes me how utterly random problems like this end up being their own fields in mathematics. This ended up being a pretty fascinating problem, but coming up with an arbitrary equation like this and then checking to see if it satisfies yet another arbitrary requirement doesn't seem very difficult to do. Am I completely missing something here?
What makes you think this? You just had area experts tell you otherwise. Do you think that mathematicians are lying to you?
It sometimes amazes me how utterly random problems like this end up being their own fields in mathematics. This ended up being a pretty fascinating problem, but coming up with an arbitrary equation like this and then checking to see if it satisfies yet another arbitrary requirement doesn't seem very difficult to do. Am I completely missing something here?
It sometimes amazes me how utterly random problems like this end up being their own fields in mathematics. This ended up being a pretty fascinating problem, but coming up with an arbitrary equation like this and then checking to see if it satisfies yet another arbitrary requirement doesn't seem very difficult to do. Am I completely missing something here?
> doesn't seem very difficult to do. What makes you think this? You just had area experts tell you otherwise. Do you think that mathematicians are lying to you?
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> doesn't seem very difficult to do. What makes you think this? You just had area experts tell you otherwise. Do you think that mathematicians are lying to you?
Mathematicians don't really claim that creating Collatz-like conjectures is difficult... they claim that proving Collatz is hard.
I watched this the other day. I was left wondering one big question. Why does this need to be solved? Would that even change anything?
I watched this the other day. I was left wondering one big question. Why does this need to be solved? Would that even change anything?
Now the important question is why human beings want to solve this, and what exactly do human beings want.