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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 00:31:54 2021 No.13457501 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13457664 >>13459573

What is a really easy and simple unsolved math problem I can solve so that way I can feel like I contributed something to humanity's overall knowledge, regardless of how useless it is.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 01:38:34 No.13457650 Report

Quoted By: >>13459084

Here's a really easy and simple math problem that, to my knowledge, has never been solved before:

47934567967854678546789549086x +
5893453459034789x + 4389557957940579345734590x + 3584759870345789340578934575934x = 42

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 01:43:11 No.13457664 Report

Quoted By: >>13457807

>>13457501
collatz conjecture.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 02:40:54 No.13457807 Report

Quoted By: >>13457817

>>13457664
It seems like most numbers return to 1... So therefore... they all return to 1.

Problem solved. I'll take my nobel peace prize now.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 02:45:08 No.13457817 Report

Quoted By: >>13457837

>>13457807
Holy shit, this new proof method should be applicable to the Riemann hypothesis as well. You've solved math.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 02:54:23 No.13457837 Report

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>>13457817
All of the known non-trivial zeroes conform to the hypothesis, so we may as well just accept it.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 15:43:58 No.13459084 Report

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>>13457650
x=42/3632698827871607853158528894399
QED

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 19:26:47 No.13459573 Report

Quoted By: >>13459595

>>13457501
1. Invert SHA256
2. Mine all bitcoin super fast
3. Profit!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 19:32:07 No.13459595 Report

Quoted By: >>13459600

>>13459573
If you can do that then you can most likely reverse elliptic curve key generation as well (i.e. P = NP), meaning you own literally every crypto wallet.

OP, the easiest way to do this is to solve boolean satisfiability in polynomial time. It's a simple problem to understand and it would make you the most powerful person in the world if you figure it out.

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Anonymous Sun 01 Aug 2021 19:33:49 No.13459600 Report

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>>13459595
Fair warning, though. P most likely does not equal NP and if you spend any amount of time on this problem you'll quickly find that its exponential nature keeps creeping up no matter what angle you attack it from.

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