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Discussions of miscellaneous mathematical topics.
- technoguyrob 19y agoThis is a duplicate post (sort of--the YC item below is a preamble to the link above): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121956 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121956
- ced 19y agoThe discussion about the existence of sqrt(2) made me wonder: is there any object in mathematics that we know exists, but have no way of calculating it? I.e.: no algorithm has been found, even given a Very Powerful Computer. I miss mathematics.