mhoye3d ago

I love Numberphile, and I love this kind of Numberphile specifically: here, starting from small numbers using ideas and operations that are extremely easy to understand and (at some scale) iterate by hand, is a wild unsolved problem absolutely beyond the reach of our current mathematical or computational capacities:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OtYKDzXwDEE&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

An amazing thing about 276 - Numberphile

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Show threadBlake C. Stacey

@mhoye 276 is the maximum number of equiangular lines in 23 dimensions, a fact that can be derived from the Leech lattice, the optimal way for a grocer to stack 24-dimensional hyperoranges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equiangular_lines

Equiangular lines - Wikipedia

Mar 26 at 10:52pmWeb
Show threadbrennen3d ago
@bstacey @mhoye something sort of definitional about how i (a person who cannot understand anything at all about math) experience math nerd stuff is that i'm pretty sure this is a shitpost and yet
Show threadBlake C. Stacey3d ago
@brennen @mhoye Well, "hyperoranges" is a joke. But the math I mentioned is real.
Show threadbrennen3d ago
@bstacey i mean naturally