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Mathematicians Have Found The Ninth Dedekind Number, After 32 Years of Searching (www.sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (17 children)

EL5 why this is significant, please.

( Not trying to be any which way.)

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I looked it up on Wikipedia.

In mathematics, the Dedekind numbers are a rapidly growing sequence of integers named after Richard Dedekind, who defined them in 1897. The Dedekind number M(n) is the number of monotone boolean functions of n variables. Equivalently, it is the number of antichains of subsets of an n-element set, the number of elements in a free distributive lattice with n generators, and one more than the number of abstract simplicial complexes on a set with n elements.

Pretty simple to understand. I mean, I understand it, for sure. Totally.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, yes. I know ~~some~~ none of these words.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

I understood most of the words, just the ones that I didn't made the rest incomprehensible garbledygoop

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