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[-] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 110 points 1 year ago

Meh, just put your question and wrong answer in a meme and post it anywhere, within an hour everyone will correct it with the right answer ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 year ago

Or post your question with a picture of Kurisu Makise saying "you should be able to solve this"

That's how they got a 4chan user to post the solution to an unsolved math problem

[-] exocrinous@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

I'm clearly not understanding the problem, because I think the only answer is 14!. What am I getting wrong?

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The question is about "superpermutations". The permutations of 1 and 2 are "12" and "21". A "superpermutation" would be "1221". It contains the numbers 1 and 2 as well as all permutations of 1 and 2. However "121" is also a superpermutation of 1 and 2. It also contains "12" and "21" and it's shorter than "1221".

The problem is finding the shortest superpermutation. Stand-up Maths has a video where he interviews a mathematician that published Anonymous' solution. So yes, there is a math paper where the main author is "Anonymous 4chan Poster".

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