48
Are you in the 95%? (mander.xyz)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by BB84@mander.xyz to c/mathmemes
19 comments fedilink hide all child comments

SpoilerMore like 99.9995%

https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2532359h2760821_the_emoji_problem__part_i

solution:

🍎 = 36875131794129999827197811565225474825492979968971970996283137471637224634055579
🍌 = 154476802108746166441951315019919837485664325669565431700026634898253202035277999
🍍 = 4373612677928697257861252602371390152816537558161613618621437993378423467772036

top 19 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 months ago

The solution is easy. Blocks Community

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Is this one of those problems that looks trivially easy to solve but has actually been an open problem in math for centuries and drives all who attempt it to inevitable madness?

Getting a real "Collatz" vibe from this

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 19 points 2 months ago

There is a solution. It's just 80 digits long. I added it to the OP in the spoiler.

[-] very_well_lost@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Rad! Are there solutions for all numbers, I wonder? Or just 4?

ETA: I found at least one solution that works for 2. (1, 1, 3)

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah based on the graphical description in the linked post there probably are other solutions. But I don't think it would work for all integer.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago

The positive values are calories, fructose and citric acid

[-] oftheair 8 points 2 months ago

Yes.

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Is this Lemmy thread too small to contain it?

[-] oftheair 1 points 1 month ago

Too small to contain what?

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The "truly marvelous" solution :)

Edit: Wait, was your "yes" a response to the question in the image or the question in the title?

[-] DropThePot@lemy.lol 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

7, 14, 79 comes pretty close. 35, 132, 627 are even closer.

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Have you tried 36875131794129999827197811565225474825492979968971970996283137471637224634055579, 154476802108746166441951315019919837485664325669565431700026634898253202035277999, 4373612677928697257861252602371390152816537558161613618621437993378423467772036 ?

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I’ll be honest, I cleaned up the equation into a similar format, saw it was some elliptic curve thing and said to myself “this is where I’d send it to a computer”, but obviously the solution is so large I doubt it wins be easily to numerically derive.

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's beyond floating point precision range so doing it on a computer requires special care, but it's still very doable, as the linked post demonstrates!

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Is rhe 5% cyborgs with builtin calculators?

[-] BB84@mander.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

yes 🤖

this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
48 points (100.0% liked)

Math Memes

2675 readers
1 users here now

Memes related to mathematics.

Rules:
1: Memes must be related to mathematics in some way.
2: No bigotry of any kind.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
NotAUser