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Ah, the esteemed Collatz Conjecture! 🎩 A mathematical riddle so perplexing that geniuses have resorted to fixed point theorems in metric spaces to solve it. πŸš€ But let's be honest, reading this paper feels like being trapped in a MΓΆbius strip of jargonβ€”you're just going in circles! πŸ˜…πŸ”„
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20642 #CollatzConjecture #MathRiddles #FixedPointTheorems #MΓΆbiusStrip #GeniusProblems #HackerNews #ngated
Fixed point theorem in metric spaces and its application to the Collatz conjecture

In this paper, we show the new fixed point theorem in metric spaces. Furthermore, for this fixed point theorem, we apply to the Collatz conjecture.

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