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Streant yes/no Popular culture is what we used to have in common. 6d ago (math.stackexchange.com) 343 thread views #342598 earned 136 coins from votes

One of the wonderfully enjoyable things about knowing a bit of maths is that you get to read about people rediscovering elements of previously-secret cryptography. Link is to the rebuttal, scroll to top.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4744025/factoring-an-integer-using-its-zeckendorf-representation/5035173#5035173

Most of crypto for the last while has been based on the asymmetric difficulty of two items of the same maths operation

p = prime1

q = prime2

result = p * q

asymmetry 1 : it is very easy to check that a number multiplied by result involved p and q, assuming you know them already.

asymmetry 2: it is very hard to work out what p and q are if you only see the result term, mostly because they're [a] prime and [b] big.

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

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peepeehands aut/ism good morning 6d ago #7795373

Remember when a medical researcher discovered a novel way to approximate the area under a curve and got a shitload of citations.

https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/

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Borpa Borpa/Borpa Borpa peepeehands 5d ago #7795906

This paper is so funny, the author mentions their name like 50 times (it's the tai model, the tai equation, the tai graph...) and dedicates this novel model to his parents lol

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FeynmanDidNothingWrong xd/squee Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must shitpost Borpa 5d ago #7797473

it was a she babe. she tried to blame it on her advisor or something saying he coined the name and she just went with it. plus her citations were crazy, like a elementary geometry book not having the methods for calculating area under a curve, only basic formulae for squares and rectangles and shit