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Did you read what you responded to? The Collatz conjecture is almost certainly not false, so no "clean up" is possible.
by jibal 3mo ago
Did you read what you responded to? The Collatz conjecture is almost certainly not false, so no "clean up" is possible.
- aleph_minus_one 3mo ago> The Collatz conjecture is almost certainly not false, so no "clean up" is possible. Many people believed the same about the Jacobian Conjecture.
- jibal 3mo agonon sequitur
- jibal 3mo agoP.S. Also false -- it simply is not true that many people believed that the Jacobian conjecture was almost certainly not false--why would they? OTOH, the Collatz conjecture has been confirmed for all integers up to 2.36 *10^21, and Terence Tao has proved that it is true for "almost" all numbers: https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-proves-huge-result-on-dangerous-problem-20191211/ https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematician-proves-huge-res... Again, this is all non sequitur, because the context was a statement that most mathematicians believe the CC to be true, in which case there would be no "clean up".