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WCDT Strips 3155 to 3160 (15-19 February 2016)
Truec:
I'm kinda starting to wonder if Jim actually owns more than one shirt. Have we ever seen him wear any other shirt? Archive binging, I see what appears to be this same white shirt with a few different jackets, blazers, yadda yadda, but no other shirts.
Tova:
There's something to be said for a wardrobe full of white shirts.
Penquin47:
Can I go live with Sam? Random snakes make life fun!
Zebediah:
What's more interesting is that Veronica actually seems to be afraid of the snakes. That's a new one - I don't recall her showing fear of anything before.
Skewbrow:
--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 14 Feb 2016, 14:06 ---I'd like to see some interaction in the shop between Emily and Hannelore. Given they are both highly intelligent and mathematically inclined, I can see them, one slow afternoon, proving Goldbach's conjecture* on the blackboard -- and then wiping it off and thinking no more about it.
(hey, it's my headcanon . . . )
* every even number is the sum of two primes. This has been shown for every even number up to 4,000,000,000,000,000,000 and everyone believes it is true but no-one has managed to prove it.
--- End quote ---
The weak form of Goldbach (we can write any odd number larger than seven as a sum of three odd primes) seems to have fallen. They guy who did it gave a talk about it at our department a bit over a year ago. It was known from some astronomical number onwards by methods of analytic number theory, and up to some very large but less astronomical number by computer check (intelligent brute force), so this huge gap remained. He had new ideas for doing the analysis more carefully, bringing that astronomical upper edge of the gap down. He also had new ideas for doing the brute force search more intelligently (using what is known about strong Goldbach as a stepping stone). Then he got access to massive amount of CPU time, and managed to close the gap. The talk went over my head - needless to say.
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