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Anon wants to watch an anime (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 3 months ago by jabathekek@sopuli.xyz to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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http://4watch.org/superstring/

https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S3751105#p3751197

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-surprisingly-difficult-mathematical-proof-that-anime-fans-helped-solve/

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[–] remi_pan@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Is this number the exact result or a lower bound ?

[–] karpintero@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lower. It caught their attention because a science fiction author had come up with upper bound, which the article notes was also bizarre.

Houston had just learned that Australian science fiction author Greg Egan had found a new maximum length for the shortest superpermutations