An Anonymous Online Anime Fan Solved A Problem That's Been Eluding Mathematicians For Decades

IFL Science ^ | 10/25/2018 | staff

[Eddie01]

A lower bound on the length of the shortest superpattern

anonymous 4channer

listed on paper as: Anonymous 4chan Poster, Robin Houston, Jay Pantone, and Vince Vatter

[Eddie01]

The Paper

[wastoute]

The power of weaponized autism.

[max americana]

“You may not have heard of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya”

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Yes, I (unfortunately) do LOL. And that’s why I joined 4Chan in the first place before it became infamous for Trumpers and they have a hilarious forum on manga and anime..without the ahole Naruto and One Piece fans which infest other manga forums. Plus, I have “dealings” with Funimation..:)

[Eddie01]

Gotta go to K=Mart

[blueunicorn6]

The answer is.....

16 trucks

[Governor Dinwiddie]

#1: "listed on paper as: Anonymous 4chan Poster, Robin Houston, Jay Pantone, and Vince Vatter "

"Trust The Plan."

[Responsibility2nd]

4chan.

This gets even stranger. The Haruhi supermutation genius and Qanon?

They are the same person.

I gotta start hanging out on the dark side of the Internet more.

[SMGFan]

Is there a youtube video of this I might understand?

[SunTzuWu]

Bookmark...

[higgmeister]

This whole original post was nothing without your cogent succinct summation. I suspect you might be the 4Chan Anonymous poster.

[Mark17]

Did anyone solve Korman's enigma yet?

[House Atreides]

4chan.

This gets even stranger. The Haruhi supermutation genius and Qanon?

They are the same person.

I gotta start hanging out on the dark side of the Internet more.
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The time-traveling future US President Baron Trump.

[Deaf Smith]

All this attention for a cartoon?

What are the possible sequences for watching the Stones?

*Fred & Barney.

[Big Red Badger]

I don’t know,
Didn’t understand the problem.

[Eddie01]

Where n = number of Stone's videos Every superpermutation for the set of permutations of length n has length at least = n! + (n − 1)! + (n − 2)! + n − 3. There you go.

[Eddie01]

Where n = number of Stone's videos

Every superpermutation for the set of permutations of length n has length at least = n! + (n - 1)! + (n - 2)! + n - 3.

There you go.

[Pravious]

Some anime is far better written and more involving than anything Hollywood can come up with.

Personally, I have no use for mathematics in my life (a life-long habit after failing Trig in High School), but I do own several copies of “The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya” (and the sequels) and find the complicated time travel plot quite mind-blowing (that said, I didn’t enjoy watching it out of order when I first saw it years ago, and I’m glad they finally put the episodes in chronological order).

Think of it this way. The best Japanese anime is to “The Flintstones” as Beethoven is to rap music.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, amazing. Great story - thanks for posting it.

I’ve never heard of a “superpermutation” before, but the article did a good job explaining it. Turns out I’ve been evaluating them in my head when I play backgammon...as well as mentally calculating odds for the various permutations. I still can’t get my BG ranking up to 1,700, though.

[ThunderSleeps]

Given the entire set of possible human actions or statements, find all the permutations that result in a leftist/globalist calling a conservative racist. Bzzzt, time’s up. It is a trick question, any/all combinations and permutations done, said, or even considered by a conservative will be labeled as racist. Meanwhile Clinton can let slip an incredibly crass comment (revealing how she really feels) and get a complete pass...