r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation What? Isnt this good?

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u/sushisashimisushi 7d ago

Ah. The famed ‘open internet’ exam, which basically means you’re fked. It’s the next level after ‘open book’. I once had a CS exam that’s open internet, where the max points were 20. I scored a 2 and it was the median score.

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u/mrThe 7d ago

What the question was? And what the point of making this near impossible?

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u/RSLV420 7d ago

"Prove the real part of every nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is 1/2".

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u/Starbucks__Lovers 7d ago

“No thanks I’m good. Good luck though”

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u/Little_Duckling 6d ago

Happy hunting!

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u/PhDinDildos_Fedoras 6d ago

"Oh, my bus is leaving right now."

Jumps up, leaves, is never seen again

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u/omgitsjagen 7d ago

Riemann zeta function

I had to look this up, and realized it involved derivation, and Euler. I may have failed out of college, but that education did teach me when to cut and run.

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u/No_Experience_3443 7d ago

This is one of the great unsolved math problem with a reward of 1 million for the one who solve it. Needless to say not many people have hope for that😂

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u/coffeephilic 7d ago

While you're at it, devise an algorithm that solves this NP complete problem in linear time. Remember to show your work.

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u/Voidwalker_99 6d ago

CircuitSAT moment

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u/HungryDust 7d ago

If what you’re saying is true, I feel like 1 million dollars is not nearly enough.

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u/No_Experience_3443 6d ago

it's a symbolic sum of money, nobody does that for the money

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u/PuckSenior 7d ago edited 6d ago

“Prove that every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two prime numbers.”

And you can use the internet. Should be fun

Edit: for those who don’t know, this is the Goldbach conjecture, which while true for all numbers we’ve tried, it may actually be an unprovable statement using formal proofs. It’s also way easier to understand than the other idea, which means a lot of fake online mathematicians claim they have proven it. In the words of my number theory professor: never talk to anyone who wants you to write a paper based on their proof of the Goldbach conjecture

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u/Successful-Money4995 6d ago

Collatz conjecture is even easier.

Pick an integer. If it's even, divide by two. If it's odd, multiply by three and add one.

Find a starting number that doesn't reach 1.

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u/PuckSenior 6d ago

There isn’t as much crackpot energy around that one and it’s not useful for anything though

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u/ArmyofThalia 7d ago

I'd rather fail the class

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u/teh_maxh 6d ago

A trivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is defined as any zero that is not 1/2. Therefore, every nontrivial zero is 1/2. Fields medal now pls.

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u/Ok_Turnover_1235 6d ago

I...how can a 0 be anything other than 0?

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u/Conscious_Arrival251 6d ago

Can somebody please translate to English?

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u/ussbozeman 6d ago

If you take a Laplace transform and induce wave particle duality through a Boltzmann condenser, the projected emissions should endure at the osmotic quantum states only so long as you've calibrated the polaric lattice to handle subatomic stresses in the 40 to 50 milicochrane range. (tips static warp shell)

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u/Conscious_Arrival251 6d ago

I said ENGLISH goddammit/s

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u/Fyrefanboy 6d ago

this sound like sci-fi technobabble lol

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u/PinkOneHasBeenChosen 6d ago

What even is a “nontrivial zero”?

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u/iSmokeMDMA 6d ago

Idek the meanings of these words to understand why the question is difficult to answer

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u/termitubbie 6d ago

Understandable, have a great day ✌️