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Collatzeral damage: bitwise and proof foolish
Let’s talk about the Collatz Conjecture, which is like mathematicians’ original version of this programmer joke: Except the number of mathematician hours wasted is much larger, possibly…
Except the number of mathematician hours wasted is much larger, possibly too large for uint32_t to hold it.The Collatz conjecture is an infamous trap for the young and ambitious. Pedants on the /r/math subreddit were quick to point out that this isn’t necessarily true, but the goal of this blog post was not to state a technically precise truth, but to explore the Collatz conjecture from a different angle. Or perhaps the Langlands project will uncover a relationship between unrelated areas of mathematical research that already exist today that will yield an answer to this nearly century-old conjecture.
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