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Ramsey Theory in the Dining Room
- nvader 11y agoI'm always delighted to find content like this on Hacker News.
- callumprentice 11y agoCame here expecting to find a thesis on how being an aggressive bully and chef had a measurable effect on your restaurant :) Great article though - was not disappointed.
- pathsjs 11y agoObligatory quote by Erdos: Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a preemptive attack