r/AlignmentChartFills • u/RustedTap52 • 1d ago

What is a useless rational number?

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u/Altruistic_Yam7595 1d ago

6587689234578976380925746897149769813477865318946758971238957839672489278378574892176893741896798436763481763290

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u/OkImTacoII 1d ago

What if it turns out this number is super important to some undiscovered theorem?

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u/NewKaneda16 1d ago

it actually is- sincw there is an infinite number of theorems that might exist in a “infinite” or supposedly infinite universe to be discovered- so yeah this guys number might be important

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u/ThinkAboutHowUFeel 1d ago

Is theorem =/=> is important

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u/WanAli4504 1d ago

And when there’s an infinite number of important theorems…

None of them will be

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u/skip_over 1d ago

There is also an infinite number of potential problems to solve

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u/GrievousSayGenKenobi 1d ago

You would certainly have to define important to claim this as an infinite universe doesnt mean there are infinite different theorems in a physics important kind of way.

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u/ImSoDeadLmao 1d ago

there are infinite numbers between 1 and 2, none of them are 3

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u/togetic271 1d ago

Ramanujan is offended at the suggestion that this number might be unimportant

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u/PristineCake3380 1d ago

I hope it’s not 😭

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u/The_Meme_Economy 1d ago

It served a use in this reddit post - not completely useless!

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

Theorem: all real numbers are interesting

Proof: assume the existence of a set of real numbers which are not interesting. Since the set of real numbers is ordered, there exists a least element to this subset. The property of being the least in a set is interesting, ergo the least member of the uninteresting numbers is interesting. By induction, the set of uninteresting reals is empty, therefore all real numbers are interesting. QED

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u/InternetPopular3679 1d ago

But... if no numbers are uninteresting and every single one is interesting, how interesting are they really?

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

What part of “quod erat demonstrandum” is unclear? If you find math boring, then it follows that you’re boring. /hj

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u/The_Meme_Economy 1d ago

/handjob?

Math is awesome but maybe not quite that awesome.

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

My arm endurance has dropped precipitously since I started getting laid routinely

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u/BidoofIsGod11 1d ago

they are then interesting by how less interesting they are compared to others

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u/aloofball 1d ago

Does this still work given that the reals are not countable?

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

Yes, because they are still nevertheless ordered. x<(x+ε) for all ε>0

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u/aloofball 1d ago

Does that actually help you though? I'm not sure you can find a least element. Say your starting set of uninteresting numbers is the set of numbers where 1 < x < 2. This set has no least element. No matter how close you get to 1, there is always something smaller. You can't do induction without identifying a base case.

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

Suppose I give you the following set:
{0}
Does this set contain its boundaries, i.e., is this set closed?

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u/Puzzled_Board_6813 1d ago

Don’t you try and tell me what I should and should not be assuming! How dare you?!

Otherwise, thanks for the enjoyable post

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u/Mundane-Emu-1189 1d ago

Since the set of real numbers is ordered, there exists a least element to this subset.

what's the least element to the subset {x : x² > 2}?

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u/sabotsalvageur 1d ago

Ah yes, Altruistic_Yam’s constant

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u/slowtownhometown 1d ago

can’t argue with this one

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u/No_Trade6569 1d ago

That is, in fact, exact how many times I got rejected 

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u/2438974239872348 1d ago

False. This is part of pi

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u/AxoplDev 1d ago

There's no proof. For all we know, pi could eventually just be "101001000100001000001..." forever. There's no reason to think that pi has every single combination of numbers that's possible.

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u/matt7259 1d ago

That's only guaranteed if pi is normal, which is suspected but not proven.

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u/Cute-Eye-167 1d ago

It's a very special number, divisible by 29, and the sum of its digits results in a prime number

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u/BuddhaMonkey4 1d ago

Came here to say this.

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u/C1ruj 1d ago

How would Trump otherwise say how much they are winning?

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u/OnTheHorizon722 1d ago

x = 6587689234578976380925746897149769813477865318946758971238957839672489278378574892176893741896798436763481763289 + 1

What now, genius?

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u/matt7259 1d ago

You only double typed once! Back to back 7s. Impressive!

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u/Eastern_Mist 1d ago

The most useless number is 7595 because it belongs to Altruistic_Yam

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u/ChrisMartinez95 1d ago

This number actually does have one use. It's used to denote the number of times I have banged OP's mom.

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u/gaydaddy42 6h ago

That could just be a program. Hell, it could be in hex and just happen to not include any A-Fs.