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I have offically moved
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MATT, you better be FUCKING reading this.
This feels like it should be exciting, but is also frustratingly above my head. What can be gleaned from press releases is this: a partition of a number is simply a way of writing it as a sum. So, 4 = 3+1 = 2+2 = 2+1+1 = 1+1+1+1, which means that the number 4 has 5 partitions. But the number of partitions grows very rapidly. By the time we’re at 100, the number is more than 190 million. Mathematicians are especially interested in methods for finding the number of partitions a given number has. But until now, methods have been impractical: recursive or involving infinite sequences. Now, a team of mathematicians has found an exact, finite formula for partition numbers. They’ve also discovered that…
the divisibility properties of partition numbers are “fractal” for every prime. “The sequences are all eventually periodic, and they repeat themselves over and over at precise intervals,” Ono says. “It’s like zooming in on the Mandelbrot set,” he adds, referring to the most famous fractal of them all.Who would think counting was so complicated? I’ll leave it to others to explain and visualize, or indeed find out whether it’s possible to visualize the fractal nature of partition numbers.
REBLOGGING BECAUSE MATT HATES SCIENCE.
One sec I’m going to try to think of more times where I have failed as a human being
WELL MATT, YOU FAILED AS EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
