#mathfun β Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mathfun, aggregated by home.social.
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John Andrzej Odrzywolek has bravely reinvented the wheel by declaring that you can derive math's most basic operations using... math's most basic operations! ππ€ Apparently, the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything is a single function and the number 1. Who knew? π€·ββοΈ
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/04/13/the-smallest-math-library/ #reinventingthewheel #mathoperations #ultimatequestion #mathfun #innovation #HackerNews #ngated -
π’β‘οΈπ€― Oh look, someone thought it was a good idea to combine integer continued fractions with complex numbers. Because clearly, math wasn't complicated enough! π Thanks, Cormac, for ensuring we have endless fun trying to solve puzzles nobody asked for. π
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15078 #mathfun #integerfractions #complexnumbers #puzzlegames #CormacHackerNews #HackerNews #ngated
