User talk:CRGreathouse

RfC at WT:ECON

I've reformulated the proposed guidelines based on your and other's comments. I would appreciate it if you could have a look and further comment there. Thankyou, --LK (talk) 15:37, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

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Thank you, LK (talk) 07:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

I'm sorry it's come to this, but edit warring continues on the project homepage. LK (talk) 07:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)

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Thanks, The Four Deuces (talk) 19:42, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Skewes number

I have a question. Is there any bound lower than :$10^{10^{10^{963}}}$ known without using computers? Thank you. Motomuku (talk) 21:58, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

I have no idea. I don't share your irrational fear of computer-generated proofs. CRGreathouse (t | c) 01:01, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

I'm not fearing. I'd just like to make distinctions. Wouldn' you? Motomuku (talk) 07:53, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

No, because reliable sources don't. CRGreathouse (t | c) 17:59, 17 November 2009 (UTC)

OPN

Do you admit the correctness of this? (Let $p_{1}$ be the smallest all $p_{i}$s.)

• N is of the form

$N=q^{\alpha }p_{1}^{2e_{1}}\cdots p_{k}^{2e_{k}},$

where:

• q, p₁, ..., p_k are distinct primes (Euler).
• q ≡ α ≡ 1 (mod 4) (Euler).
• Either N≡ 1(mod 12), or $N\equiv (3^{2e_{1}+3}-9)/2{\pmod {2(3^{2e_{1}+3}-9)}}$ (Roberts 2008).

Motomuku (talk) 20:07, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I haven't considered its correctness, only that it's not stated in a WP:RS. CRGreathouse (t | c) 20:29, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it is. It is not stated this way, but it's reliable. Motomuku (talk) 02:57, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Take it to WT:MATH, then. CRGreathouse (t | c) 18:24, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Hilbert's second

You wrote,

But none of this really matters, because Hilbert *wasn't* asking about real numbers. He was asking about rational numbers, which is clearly equivalent to asking about natural numbers or integers

Susumu Hayashi is a historian as well as a logician at Kyoto University. What Hayashi researched and found out was Hilbert was asking about real numbers. I'm sure you are aware of the result Hilbert proved that the consistency of Euclidean Geometry is equivalent to the consistency of reals. Hilbert's focus was on reals and Hayashi has deeply surveyed on that. But it's not only you. Hayashi admits many mathematicians are misunderstanding. Motomuku (talk) 01:37, 22 December 2009 (UTC)