What's your greatest math/science achievement, /sci/?

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ITT, share stories of your greatest finding. It could be as simple as figuring out a problem that's been keeping you up at night. Whatever it is, feel free to share! I'll begin.

> be me, freshman year of HS
> Always have loved math, did well in classes, etc.
> Friend and I, who we'll call Steve, are talking about calculus because we're both interested in that stuff.
> Learn that calculus can be used for finding the area under curves.
> You make tiny rectangles and total up the area of all of them, essentially.
> idea.mov
> Grab a peice of paper and start math scribbling.
> I come up with a number I dubed "V".
> V is the number 1/Infinity, essentially 0.(infinite 0's) and then a 1.
> Steve and I find new ways to use the number, just having fun with it.
> We came up with a way to add V's together, multiply them, etc.
> weird properties.png
> V * 10 = V, we figured.
> This lead us down a rabbit hole of other crazy propeties.
> Still think about that day soemtimes and just laugh at how much fun we were having with some made up number

TL;DR Me and my friend are autistic enough to have a logical discussion about a made up number that doesn't work ever.