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>I honestly can’t tell if this is a good joke... I'll help out: It's a joke.

• dahart 8y ago
  For sure? I skimmed the whole thing and couldn’t immediately find any other jokes. Seems an odd choice to throw in one random deadpan comment about the coincidence of 31 being near a power of two.
  • mturmon 8y ago
    Definitely a joke. The "open research question" kicker makes that clear. There's a similar jokey footnote on page 33.
  • wellpast 8y ago
    > Seems an odd choice to throw in one random deadpan comment... But then again it gives the joke a special nonplussing hilarity that it wouldn’t acquire otherwise.