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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Enough of this minor news
The Ternary Goldbach Conjecture has been proved! arxiv.org/abs/1305.2897

What a day! And we can tell our grandchildren we lived through these worldchanging times.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:33, 8 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
\o/
though 7 needs to repeat 2
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:36, Reply)
Well thank fuck for that, I thought they'd never sort it.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:37, Reply)
Well, thats a weight off my mind

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:38, Reply)
it lost me at ternary

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:40, Reply)
It's a home for sea birds you flid.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:43, Reply)
what a bent spastic

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:44, Reply)
YESSS - VINDICATED AT LAST

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:44, Reply)
133 pages of comments?
That's worse than a Daily Mail immigration web article.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:45, Reply)
OH NOES!
I have checked his working and he forgot to carry the 1.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:49, Reply)
EVERYBODY OUT!

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:52, Reply)
Prime numbers will be how we communicate with and test the intelligence of aliens.
Also used in the cryptography that makes the internet useable.
This is important news.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:54, Reply)
Aliens yeah.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:56, Reply)
We've discovered close to 1000 exoplanets already.
there is life out there we just need to find it.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:58, Reply)
How do you know we haven't already?
*ickes*
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:01, Reply)
Yeah, aliens.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:15, Reply)
There will be life discovered, and I bet you it's some fucking primordial sludge or some moss or something.
Good luck talking to the moss with your prime numbers m8.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:16, Reply)
Given a large enough scale the vanishingly rare and unlikely become near certainty.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:21, Reply)
But imagine if we manage to find a planet where chicken were made out of lobster meat?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:22, Reply)
Why would you want a Frenchman made from lobster meat?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:25, Reply)
Has the film Battleship taught us nothing?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:23, Reply)
I cried when the rabbit died

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:38, Reply)
MUMMY

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:42, Reply)
Well they're not even in my top ten numbers.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:57, Reply)
2,3,5,7 are lol

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:58, Reply)
Why are they funnier than the others?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 11:59, Reply)
Cos 1,4,6 and 8 are no longer appreciated

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:08, Reply)
Tom Robinson's follow up was less successful

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 12:20, Reply)

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