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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Tasty on November 07, 2018, 01:03:09 PM

Title: Anime causes 4chan to invent math
Post by: Tasty on November 07, 2018, 01:03:09 PM
Like, for real. (https://www.quantamagazine.org/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem-20181105/)

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Fans were arguing online about the best order to watch the episodes, and the 4chan poster wondered: If viewers wanted to see the The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya in every possible order, what is the shortest list of episodes they’d have to watch?

In less than an hour, an anonymous person offered an answer — not a complete solution, but a lower bound on the number of episodes required. The argument, which covered series with any number of episodes, showed that for the 14-episode first season of Haruhi, viewers would have to watch at least 93,884,313,611 episodes to see all possible orderings. “Please look over [the proof] for any loopholes I might have missed,” the anonymous poster wrote.

The proof slipped under the radar of the mathematics community for seven years — apparently only one professional mathematician spotted it at the time, and he didn’t check it carefully. But in a plot twist last month, the Australian science fiction novelist Greg Egan proved a new upper bound on the number of episodes required. Egan’s discovery renewed interest in the problem and drew attention to the lower bound posted anonymously in 2011.

Both proofs are now being hailed as significant advances on a puzzle mathematicians have been studying for at least 25 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlwda9S58Lg
Title: Re: Anime causes 4chan to invent math
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 07, 2018, 01:58:56 PM
Watching Haruhi Season 3 on my Compaq in 20never :goty
Title: Re: Anime causes 4chan to invent math
Post by: TVC15 on November 07, 2018, 02:03:31 PM
watching Haruhi on my Compaq in 2006 :noah

Why were you watching it when you were too young to functionally beat off?
Title: Re: Anime causes 4chan to invent math
Post by: Tasty on November 07, 2018, 04:36:54 PM
:jeanluc

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Title: Re: Anime causes 4chan to invent math
Post by: thisismyusername on November 07, 2018, 04:50:23 PM
You're just finding out about this Today? Bitch, twitter was reporting on this in September... :goty2
Title: Re: Anime causes 4chan to invent math
Post by: Joe Molotov on November 07, 2018, 04:54:36 PM
for me and many other young boys, that show laid the foundation for all kinds of sexual deviancies. It was the sexual awakening for a generation of young weebs.

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(https://img.gifmagazine.net/gifmagazine/images/18500/original.gif)

 :expert

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