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mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 01:40:25 JST mcc

Wait… is that true
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1. Light pole graffiti reading "13^5 + 16^5 = 17^3". The final exponential is slightly smudged
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  Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 01:40:24 JST Paul Cantrell
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  Diophantine Trolling
  
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  Jason Bowen 🇺🇦 (jbowen@mast.hpc.social)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 01:59:39 JST Jason Bowen 🇺🇦
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  @inthehands @mcc Now I want to go around leaving math graffiti asserting unproven conjectures...
  
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  Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 01:59:39 JST Paul Cantrell
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  “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this disused railroad bridge is too narrow to contain in my wildstyle lettering”
  
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  Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️ (xgranade@wandering.shop)'s status on Saturday, 19-Oct-2024 05:10:12 JST Cassandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️
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  @jbowen @inthehands @mcc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_Bridge
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    Broom Bridge
    
    Broom Bridge (Irish: Droichead Broome), also called Broome Bridge, and sometimes Brougham Bridge, is a bridge along Broombridge Road which crosses the Royal Canal in Cabra, Dublin, Ireland. Broome Bridge is named after William Broome, one of the directors of the Royal Canal company who lived nearby. It is famous for being the location where Sir William Rowan Hamilton first wrote down the fundamental formula for quaternions on 16 October 1843, which is to this day commemorated by a stone plaque on the northwest corner of the underside of the bridge. After being spoiled by the action of vandals and some visitors, the plaque was moved to a different place, higher, under the railing of the bridge. The text on the plaque reads: Given the historical importance of the bridge with respect to mathematics, mathematicians from all over the world have been known to take part in the annual commemorative walk from Dunsink Observatory to the site. Attendees have included Nobel Prize winners Murray Gell-Mann, Steven Weinberg and Frank Wilczek, and mathematicians Sir Andrew Wiles, Sir Roger Penrose and Ingrid...

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