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Anonymous Sun Jul 2 07:33:25 2023 No.15536547 [Reply] [Original]

What is the least know mathematical constant

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 07:37:06 2023 No.15536550 File: 428 KB, 1242x1129, 1688283405772.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Chaitin's constant. Its value literally cannot be known.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 07:42:02 2023 No.15536552 >>15536550 What ever is the reason for it

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 08:04:23 2023 No.15536568 >>15536550 its Chaitin's constant's, its plural >>15536550 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin's_constant it represents the probability that a randomly constructed program will halt, its uncomputable

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 08:05:32 2023 No.15536571 >>15536552 meant to reply to you >>15536568

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 08:16:25 2023 No.15536582 0

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 08:19:35 2023 No.15536584 >>15536550 It's not a constant. It's a function from the space of all languages to [0,1]. >>15536547 Euler's constant has a lot of unknowns for something that has been known for 200 years

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 08:24:49 2023 No.15536585 >>15536584 Not to be confused with the more well-known Euler's number (e).

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 11:25:38 2023 No.15536762 Foreskin's constant

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 11:27:42 2023 No.15536766 Feigenbaum's number is pretty rare.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 11:29:44 2023 No.15536772 >>15536585 Everything in math is named after the second person who discovered it or everything would simply be named after Euler

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 2 13:20:36 2023 No.15536956 >>15536772 except, ironically, Euler's number, which was discovered by one of the Bernoullis