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Are you in the 95%? (mander.xyz)

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Spoiler

More like 99.9995%

https://artofproblemsolving.com/community/c2532359h2760821_the_emoji_problem__part_i

solution:

🍎 = 36875131794129999827197811565225474825492979968971970996283137471637224634055579
🍌 = 154476802108746166441951315019919837485664325669565431700026634898253202035277999
🍍 = 4373612677928697257861252602371390152816537558161613618621437993378423467772036

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Is this one of those problems that looks trivially easy to solve but has actually been an open problem in math for centuries and drives all who attempt it to inevitable madness?

Getting a real "Collatz" vibe from this

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

There is a solution. It's just 80 digits long. I added it to the OP in the spoiler.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Rad! Are there solutions for all numbers, I wonder? Or just 4?

ETA: I found at least one solution that works for 2. (1, 1, 3)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah based on the graphical description in the linked post there probably are other solutions. But I don't think it would work for all integer.

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