Comment by lIl-IIIl
5 days ago
"Increasing the limit by less than a thousandth of a percent does not make this a "world record"!"
Why doesn't it?
"If we go by that logic, I only have to validate one more example than you and claim a world record."
Yes. You can argue that it's not difficult enough or interesting enough, but you can't argue that N+1 result is not a world record.
Yeah, I was confused, too. That’s how world records work.
That makes sense in sports. But in math? It's trivially easy to generate thousands of so-called "world records" every second.
Here's one:
4*10^18 + 7*10^13 + 1.
Boom! New world record. Now add 1 and you've got another. Try it. Keep going. World records like this will be surpassed by someone else in milliseconds.
Honestly, this is the first time I've heard "world record" used for NOT finding a counterexample. The whole thing feels absurd. You can keep checking numbers forever, calling each one a record? It's silly, to be honest. Never heard anyone calling these world records, before today.
OP has a nice project. But the wording is so deceptive and so silly that it harms the credibility of the project more than it helps.
> Never heard anyone calling these world records, before today.
You've never heard of the world record for calculating digits of pi?
https://www.livescience.com/physics-mathematics/mathematics/...
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Every second is easy. Let's aim for new world records at a 1MHz rate.
Since this is math, I feel pedantic. It may not be a notable world record, but it’s still a world record. There are infinitely many non-notable world record categories. I currently hold the one for saying the word “fbejsixbenebxhsh” the most number of times in a row. Nobody cares, but it’s still a world record.
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Isn't it more a record about the state of computing than the state of conjecture?
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That is the literal definition of a world record here, my guy.
Take it up with the rules.
And yes, mathematically it's uninteresting. But that's not what is being showed off here.
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I think they're saying that because it builds on the previous result having any one effort claim a record doesn't really make sense.
Like imagine there was a record for longest novel published, and what you did was take the previous longest novel and add the word "hello" to the end of it. Does the person who added "hello" get the record?