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The Strong Law of Small Numbers (1988) [pdf]
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- reidjs 5y agoThat goes from sort of understandable to completely cryptic in about 3 pages
- wizardofdos 5y agoTLDR: You can't tell by looking (if your rule holds for all or only a small set of numbers). You will need a maths degree for actually telling.
- techbio 5y ago"Capricious coincidences cause careless conjectures."
- danuker 5y ago> It will be proved by intimidation Sounds like it worked!
- France_is_bacon 5y agoHeh. You mean sort of understandable for part of the first sentence, ending with '35 examples of patterns." After that, no.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoRIP Richard K. Guy https://aperiodical.com/2020/03/richard-k-guy-1916-2020/ https://aperiodical.com/2020/03/richard-k-guy-1916-2020/
- jostylr 5y agoExample 5 has long been a favorite of mine. So easy to investigate, so geometrical, and there is a pattern, just not the obvious one.