i'm a math tutor who usually only lurks and i made an account just to say fuck you and well played to whoever made this
this is a Diophantine equation, which just means you're only allowed integers to solve it, and there's a whole branch of math devoted to theorizing about these guys and finding nice tasty ones. this one in particular is an ASSHOLE though, not sure it's possible to solve without a computer tbh
yeah no way haha, correct answers are probably many many digits long. having integers only really limits you in fun ways. like you can graph this in 3 dimensions and just pick a point that's an answer, but you'll be looking for a point with ONLY integer values for x, y, and z for a LONG time
Yeah if you ever see one of these, assume a bored math major did it, and chances are the problem is either difficult, provably impossible, or currently unsolved.
i'm a math tutor who usually only lurks and i made an account just to say fuck you and well played to whoever made this
this is a Diophantine equation, which just means you're only allowed integers to solve it, and there's a whole branch of math devoted to theorizing about these guys and finding nice tasty ones. this one in particular is an ASSHOLE though, not sure it's possible to solve without a computer tbh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine_equation
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yeah no way haha, correct answers are probably many many digits long. having integers only really limits you in fun ways. like you can graph this in 3 dimensions and just pick a point that's an answer, but you'll be looking for a point with ONLY integer values for x, y, and z for a LONG time
I think for this specific one the solution is like 10^6 digits long or something ungodly like that
Damn, thanks for saving me the effort of doing this on paper.
Yeah if you ever see one of these, assume a bored math major did it, and chances are the problem is either difficult, provably impossible, or currently unsolved.
why do they prank us like this
This was all a ruse to force you specifically to make an account :troll:
FUCK it totally worked ok folks ask me about your math homework and i will help you because communism
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lmao, so for once it's actually overestimating the number of people who can solve it
By about 5% give or take a billionth of a percent
95% of people cannot solve this! (the other 5% can't either)
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