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So, this whole “Collatz Conjecture” thing
- JoeAltmaier 5y agoThis doesn't seem like a proof. It's a statistical argument? I'd tend to agree with the 'conclusion' (that all numbers collapse to 1 under the rules of the game) but I don't think its going to win any cash prizes.
- NotAnOtter 5y agoStatistical arguments have already been around though. Everyone is pretty sure it never ends, that's already been agreed upon. The question isn't "Does it look like it always go to 1?"
- CheezeIt 5y agoIt’s not even a statistical argument. This doesn’t even make it to the part where there’s a fake proof. It’s just… a bunch of stuff.
- elikoga 5y agoThis just reads like "I can't find a counterexample and can't think of a way to find a counterexample so there must be no way to construct a counterexample so there are no counterexamples" and there are two points where you can go wrong with that kind of argument
- niknoble 5y agoThis article argues that a sequence shouldn't blow up to infinity. Does it make a case for why a sequence shouldn't get caught in a permanent loop before it can drop to 1?
- mike00632 5y ago"I feel like I just did, but if that didn't satisfy you, dear mathematician, I find it ironic that when I tell people they can't prove my pants weren't stolen by a pink, time traveling unicorn, I'm told that I'm "scaring families" and that I "need to leave this Arby's before the police get involved", whilst YOU..." This is really the crux of the proof: an assertion that they don't need to take on the burden proving what they set out to prove. It's more of a challenge to us to accept what they've written as a proof or otherwise suffer social stigma for being too picky in demanding rigid arguments.
- hnrj95 5y agoi can’t tell if this is satire, but just for explicitness: this is nowhere near any level of acceptable mathematical rigor