If You Can Solve This You Can Win $1 Million

New York Post ^ | August 19, 2023 | Chloe Whelan

[nickcarraway]

An institution has offered a $1 million prize to anyone who can solve a famous math problem that has puzzled mathematicians for more than a century.

The Riemann hypothesis, first proposed by German mathematician Bernhard Riemann in 1859, is considered to be one of the hardest and most important unsolved problems of pure mathematics — the study of thinking about maths, rather than applying it to the real world.

The hypothesis is based on the Riemann zeta function, also attributed to Bernhard Riemann. It states: “The real part of every nontrivial zero of the Riemann zeta function is 1/2”. The answer to the Riemann hypothesis is a simple “yes” or “no”, but there are many hypothetical ways to get there, all of which are extremely difficult.

[TalBlack]

I have the answer but I want more than a paltry million for it. Bidenomics you know…

[Celtic Conservative]

An umbrella

CC

[muir_redwoods]

Here’s a party trick called Kaprekar’s Constant

Start with any four digit number. To ease the process avoid zeros and duplicate digits to start but it’ll still work.

Rearrange the digits in descending order. Then rearrange the same digits in ascending order. Subtract the second number from the first and repeat. Add a leading zero(s) to any result that’s not four digits.

Keep up the process until you arrive at 6174. That number repeats forever. It is always the ultimate answer no matter what number you start with.

For example

Take 7256 rearrange as follows

7652
2567 subtract and get

5085 repeat

You’ll always end up with 6174 eventually

[SunkenCiv]

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[telescope115]

That’s life- one big möbius strip!