Submitted 11 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular ‘n=1’ and ‘n=2’ theories.
Close, but it’s actually 5 and the biggest German newspaper covered it a decade ago. Also: I feel old now.
To be clear for non-Germans: “Der Postillon” is a satire-newspaper and only calls itself “The biggest German dayly newspaper of the World”. 😅
I’m not even sure they call themself that but they have “honest news, independent, fast since 1845” and they “report before they investigate”, that’s how fast they are. They are the equivalent of The Onion I would say
The specific number 4.1083 does not have any notable significance or special role in the contexts of physics, chemistry, finance, astronomy or cryptography.[citation needed] 4.1083 (or at least 4.108) has been referenced previously in comic 899: Number Line.
Gonna go with the last one in the discussion part
TWTR earlier this month had a market cap of $41.09bn
Market cap? It’s a private company, it doesn’t have a market cap.
Curious, according to whom? Outside of just unsourced reports of its market cap, the estimates on its valuation are less than half that number.
I really cannot find a news source.
Wake me up when they figure out epsilon
Let epsilon be a large number
This makes me irrationally uncomfortable.
80085 = XXX X = 43.103948978092
Rez@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
X = 10, learn your Roman numerals