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This is a great announcement; it reminds me of the legendary story of Frank Nelson Cole wordlessly announcing his factorization of 2^67 - 1: https://en.m.wikipe
by intuitionist 7y ago
This is a great announcement; it reminds me of the legendary story of Frank Nelson Cole wordlessly announcing his factorization of 2^67 - 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson_Cole https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nelson_Cole
- mzs 7y agoview the source, wasn't really wordless
- alanbernstein 7y agoIs that an HTML joke? The source says "At a mathematical meeting in New York in 1903, F. N. Cole walked on to the platform and, without saying a single word, wrote two large numbers on the blackboard. He multiplied them out in longhand, and equated the result to 2^67-1."
- pavel_lishin 7y agoWhich source?
- mzs 7y agoSorry, looks like the link has been change to a tweet from http://math.mit.edu/~drew/ http://math.mit.edu/~drew/ I meant the html source of Andrew's dept homepage titled "Life, the Universe, and Everything" at that moment.
- alanbernstein 7y agoWell, pretty close anyway, technically it's only one comment...
- mzs 7y agoand a new title $ curl -s https://math.mit.edu/~drew/ | python3 -c 'from sys import stdin as s; from html.parser import HTMLParser as P; p = P(); p.handle_data = print; p.feed(s.read())' | tr -s ' \n' Life, the Universe, and Everything (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3 $