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EVERY RUNNER IS SOMETIMES LONELY

>https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.01783

GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT

>> No.8128343
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8128343

I say before today's over, we see a blog post showing a flaw in the proof.

>> No.8128436

>>8128343
It's legit. I just checked with the computer.

>> No.8128503

>Combinatorics
MEME

>> No.8128592

Kek somebody edited wikipedia already

>> No.8128595

Why should I believe that? Arxiv has a lot of people claiming to have proved famous conjectures. You could see a few every week.

>> No.8128627

define "lonely"

>> No.8130145

>>8128343
>The paper has been withdrawn due to a mistake in the last line of the proof--it does not hold for n=0. Thanks to Terry Tao for pointing out this crucial gap

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>>8128503
>dislikes combo

go to bed anon, the adults are talking

>> No.8130154

>>8130145
That was fuckin fast. Show's over folks.

>> No.8130169

>>8127876
This thread is good bait for people who might help me prove the following conjecture:

Is it possible to draw chords on a circle such that all the pieces of the circle have the same area but are not pairwise congruent?

>> No.8130182

>>8130169
I doubt it. If you find it, leap on that opportunity to create a new Gomboc - patent and mass produce useless objects to materialist nerds.

>> No.8130184

>>8130169
how many chords?
straight chords?

>> No.8130187

>>8130184
Any amount of chords.

Straight.

>> No.8130197

>>8130182
I doubt a division of a flat circle would allow one to create a Gomboc or something like that.

Anyway yeah I highly doubt it's possible. For one, I have proven by exhaustion it cannot be done in 5 chords or less. And the more chords you use the less likely it is that you will able to divide the circle up equally. I can describe any equal division of the circle as a system of trigonometric equations, but these equations can only be solved numerically. That has me at a dead end of how to manipulate the system to prove what I want.

>> No.8130203

>>8130187
seems hard

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>>8130145
>Terry Tao
The absolute madman.

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>>8130145
>n=0
BTFO

>> No.8130989

>>8130145
Jesus Christ that's got to be embarrassing.

>> No.8130997

does anyone know what the last line of the proof was?

>> No.8131084

>>8130997
It's in the link in OP you inbred fag.

>> No.8131094

>>8130145
>n=0
So sure, factorial can be defined for n=0, but Autists won't let this be.