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[-] Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org 113 points 3 weeks ago

And a very acedemic response to 'hehe our names say cock sucker'

[-] perishthethought@piefed.social 92 points 3 weeks ago

Just gonna leave us wondering about the algorithm, eh?

In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections[further explanation needed] provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.

Or was that just me?

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 64 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not wondering any less now.

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 35 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I wasn’t very curious since according to them, the primary point of the paper was making a joke. I assumed the algorithm wasn’t groundbreaking or truly interesting, just something that could be published.

[-] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

*nodding

Mmm.

Aha, yep. I know some of these words.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 66 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I love that this originated from NJ, via Princeton and Rutgers.

This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who, as first-year graduate students at Princeton University in 1970, conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers University

[-] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago
[-] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Wasn't there an actual NASA project called C3PO? I'm vaguely remembering a MattPatt video from Pre-FNAF days

Update: NASAS Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO)

It looked like it ended in 2013 but my memory was still right

[-] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 weeks ago

Oh man, pre-FNAF? Thats the deep magic.

[-] lostme@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

A thing to note is that they didn't name the algorithm. It was 5 years later when Charles Schwartz gave it that name

[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Some other mathematicians took another set of work by Cox and created the Cox Ring.

[-] BilSabab@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Fair enough

[-] Bonus@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

If Deadwood had been set in France.

[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago
[-] Bonus@mander.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
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