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109 points

Meh, just put your question and wrong answer in a meme and post it anywhere, within an hour everyone will correct it with the right answer 😂

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Or post your question with a picture of Kurisu Makise saying “you should be able to solve this”

That’s how they got a 4chan user to post the solution to an unsolved math problem

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Holy shit that’s actually amazing

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I’m clearly not understanding the problem, because I think the only answer is 14!. What am I getting wrong?

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The question is about “superpermutations”. The permutations of 1 and 2 are “12” and “21”. A “superpermutation” would be “1221”. It contains the numbers 1 and 2 as well as all permutations of 1 and 2. However “121” is also a superpermutation of 1 and 2. It also contains “12” and “21” and it’s shorter than “1221”.

The problem is finding the shortest superpermutation. Stand-up Maths has a video where he interviews a mathematician that published Anonymous’ solution. So yes, there is a math paper where the main author is “Anonymous 4chan Poster”.

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What’s funny is that watching The Endless Eight already feels like you’re watching 93,884,313,611 episodes of Haruhi

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I seriously could not believe what I was watching when I got to that part. I would start the next one thinking “there is no way… Yep, again”. How did the director even convince people to do it?

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A tangent about Haruhi and 4chan wouldn’t even be the weirdest leap, if this somehow helped prove P=NP.

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It’s Murphy’s law

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21 points

It’s actually Cunningham’s Law

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6 points

Brannigan’s Law.

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10 points

Quite often it gets corrected with another wrong answer.

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5 points

Correct. Always provide wrong answer. No one can withstand someone being wrong on the internet.

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Wow that’s such a good approach :D

r/unpopularopinion might also work well

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Obviously thats so wrong. The correct answer is to pray for the answer and keep taking naps until you get your answers.

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Have you been stalking me?

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