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hthrflwrs
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the two kinds of unsolved math problem are "we think it might be infinite but we've solved it definitively up to 12,478,329,709,179,875,728,943,982,427,349,234,293,487" and "we've spent the past thirty years trying to find out if 2 is a valid answer"



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in reply to @hthrflwrs's post:

See my favorite pop-math fact that there are infinite regular polygons (2d), five regular polyhedra (3d), three polytopes in 5d and higher, but 4d has, for some reason, six of them: 4d analogs of all the 3d ones, then a bonus one that doesn't exist in any other dimension (the 120-cell).

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Ramsey bounds are in general extremely fucked. It's a great area of math if you want to see things like "We know that for 1 by 3 matrices you need 24 colors, but we don't know how many colors you need for 1 by 4 matrices"