Frankie ✅How Anime Fans Stumbled upon a Mathematical Proof
When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years
sbszine@Some_Emo_Chick Includes a mention of contributions from our own @gregeganSF
4bz@Some_Emo_Chick this hurts my head. I'd expect it to just be An n^(n-1) kind of deal. But then they mention watching episodes more than once in one sitting? Why would you watch a duplicate episode and count it for the run?
And if duplicate episode per sitting is allowed, wouldn't the answer be infinite as you could just keep watching duplicates?
@Some_Emo_Chick (I'm not a math nerd, so I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here)
John M. GambleThere were a few YouTube videos on this. Here is one with Robin Houston.
