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xkcd #2922: Pub Trivia (imgs.xkcd.com)

https://xkcd.com/2922

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Bonus question: Where is London located? (a) The British Isles (b) Great Britain and Northern Ireland (c) The UK (d) Europe (or 'the EU') (e) Greater London

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[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 57 points 8 months ago

8 is yes, but I don't have enough space to fit the proof in a post.

[-] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Easy, only relevant part: defined as being > 1

[-] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

from the explanation:

This is a famous, centuries-old open question in math known as Goldbach's conjecture. Mathematicians widely believe that it is true,it has held true for every number checked up to 4 ⋅ 1018, but since it's impossible to check every number, we can't assume it's universally true

Way more than enough to make any thing true on the interweb these days

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago
[-] tooLikeTheNope@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh no dude, that wasn't referred to you at all, I got and enjoyed your lighthearted humour, the comment was a just general consideration on the rhetoric I too often encounter when diving into a heavily controversial threads on the interweb; e.g. usually a rando with 5 figures karma points will suddenly pop up out of nowhere bringing up bro'mbastically that in his own singular experience the argument was true/false, therefore whatever was the hypothesis, or the wall of text of fact-checked peer-reviewed argumentation presented, it surely must be simply correct/wrong...and everyone lived happily ever after in demagogyland.

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