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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

https://zeta.one/viral-math/

I wrote a (very long) blog post about those viral math problems and am looking for feedback, especially from people who are not convinced that the problem is ambiguous.

It's about a 30min read so thank you in advance if you really take the time to read it, but I think it's worth it if you joined such discussions in the past, but I'm probably biased because I wrote it :)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Lemmy interprets some symbols as formatting commands, for example putting a # at the start of a line turns it into a header:

## header

You can tell it to not do that by putting a backslash before the symbol:

\# not a header

The backslash is called the escape symbol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago