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Breaking Knots News
2407 sats \ 11 comments \ @SimpleStacker 6h science
An example was given of a pair of knots K_1, K_2 in the 3-sphere for which their unknotting numbers satisfy u(K_1\#K_2) < u(K_1) + u(K_2).
Read the paper: Unknotting Number is Not Additive Under Connected Sum
And here's a video for you plebs who don't understand1

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  1. Just in case anyone gets mad, i'm being sarcastic ↩
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 1h
Nice to see there's more than 1 knots contributor now
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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @BITC0IN 5h
Spam
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 5h
It's not spam if I pay the posting fee 😉
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 1h
It's not fungible if my gratitude has an identification number.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 1h
@BITC0IN1
[useless one-word waste of cowboy credits]2
I stopped using that word after attending enough free educational bullshit in public universities. Now people consider my abuse of free speech spam.
Do I feel welcome in SN yet? Yes, thanks to comments on my bio, rather than zaps on my ramblings.

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  2. #1240013 ↩
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @OT 6h
Fake news!
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32 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker OP 6h
Everything reported was 100% factual.
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @kepford 6h
Bravo
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker OP 6h
The video is actually pretty interesting haha
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 1h
One of my favorite Reddit threads was "which field of mathematics needs to die in a fire", and obviously the best nomination is that one that can be destroyed along with the educational tools and raw materials in a literal fire.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 1h
That is one useless obnoxious graphic. Bight evacuation over stretching the topological metaphor, anyday.
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