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9110672 No.9110672 [Reply] [Original]

Why is combinatorics so hard?

>> No.9110687

The continuum is a safe-space for analysts to handwave away certain subtleties on the grounds that it's "approximately correct" (this is a pretty nebulous phrase, because they never keep track of their error bounds either).

Discrete math systematically keeps track of everything, so it only seems hard in comparison.

>> No.9110696

Cuz ur a dog woof woof bark bark

>> No.9110718

>>9110672
Because using the tools we currently have available to study combinatorics requires a very good/large working memory (the average individual has a working memory of 7 elements; a high IQ individual with a good working memory might be able to juggle a few dozen elements). If you can find a way to abstract away the details, you can "simplify" it, and indeed, there exists some ways to do that, but no one has found a great oracle that allows every combinatorics problem to "smoothed" out.

>> No.9110913

>>9110718
Hum, quite interesting, can someone confirm if this is indeed true and not a fraud?

>> No.9110919

>>9110672
Because it requires logical thinking and people are afraid of it

>> No.9110967

>>9110913
Confirm what? Were You just stumped by simple iq memes?

>> No.9110978

>>9110672
>Combinatorics
>Hard
>Pick one
t. Brainlet

>> No.9111036

>>9110967
Go back to >>>/b/ brainlet.

>> No.9111043

>>9110913
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory#Capacity

>> No.9111049

>>9110687
>Discrete math systematically keeps track of everything, so it only seems hard in comparison.
That's how it's done in Analysis as well, retard.
Calculus students and physicist have no idea what they are doing usually.

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>>9111049
>physicist have no idea what they are doing usually.
Not Physicists with the PHENOTYPE.

>> No.9111065

>>9110718
You have something called pencil and paper, retard. This is the most psued answer I have ever heard.

>> No.9111082

>>9111061
Hasn't Witten said that he has trouble doing rigorous math?
From what I understand he has a good personal approach that yields results, but he has problems with rigorous mathematics.

>> No.9111111

>course on advanced combinatorics
>hurdur can't put two pigeons in one box

>> No.9111188
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>>9111111

wow!

>> No.9111189

>>9111111
Prime factorization of your get is 3 × 223 × 13619
Find a good meme for it.

>> No.9112060

>>9111111
looooooooooooooooooooool
epic :DDDDDD

>> No.9112174

>>9111065
>pseud
>>>/lit/

>> No.9112231

>>9112174
The one thing /lit/ doesn't have are pseuds like you.

Go back to /pol/, trash.