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What would it mean if they found a number — one number — that didn’t adhere to this rule?
by dclowd9901 7y ago
What would it mean if they found a number — one number — that didn’t adhere to this rule?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoOf course that's one way of proving this wrong. But you have to start above 18 quadrillion. Because all the numbers less than that have been tried.
- 3pt14159 7y agoHas anyone tried really, really large numbers picked at random?
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoOne approach. But I'd suggest it has less than a one-in-18-quadrillion chance of working. From the statistics so far.
- gnode 7y agoIt's trivial to do. Here: https://js.do/code/383036 https://js.do/code/383036
- bluGill 7y agoYou cannot find ONE such number. Either there is a loop that doesn't include 1, so you found a sequence of them. The other possibility if the sequence goes to infinity and so you found and infinite number of counter examples.
- mensetmanusman 7y agoHow would you calculate the number sequence out to infinity?
- dclowd9901 7y agoI guess my question was more “what could that mean?”