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This tweet is misleadingly worded. The solution was not posted on 4chan, but rather by an anonymous user on a “wiki mainly devoted to anime” as the original twe
by lemoncucumber 8y ago
This tweet is misleadingly worded. The solution was not posted on 4chan, but rather by an anonymous user on a “wiki mainly devoted to anime” as the original tweet quoted by this tweet makes clear.
- rofo1 8y agoIt was indeed posted on 4chan, as you can see here - http://4watch.org/superstring/ http://4watch.org/superstring/ That's the whole thread
- ma2rten 8y agoThe follow-up to the other tweet says it was copied to that wiki from 4chan.
- acali 8y agochange "wiki" to "message-board" and "mainly" to "originally" and it becomes accurate. It came from the /sci/ board on 4chan.
- rtkwe 8y agoThe original tweet is somewhat confused though too because the linked wiki is an archive/summary of a thread on /sci/ which is one of the 4chan message boards. It's copied there because of the ephemeral nature of posts on the actual boards so you can't provide a permanent link, thus linking to the next best source seems the best choice.
- lemoncucumber 8y agoThat makes more sense, thanks for the clarification. The tweet saying that it was originally posted on a "wiki" and then linking to a wiki made me think that that wiki was the actual source.