• addie@feddit.uk
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    20 hours ago

    Proving a thing that’s only known empirically is extremely valuable, too. We’ve an enormous amount of evidence that the Riemann hypothesis is correct - we can produce an infinite amount of points on the line, in fact - but proving it is a different matter.

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      17 hours ago

      And for the kid challenging the 0.1% result, that’s about as close to pure scientific method as you can get.