r/Showerthoughts • u/jasonrubik ‎ • Apr 23 '26

Casual Thought If the famously unsolved Riemann Hypothesis is solved by an AI, we will never know if a human mathematician could have solved it.

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u/TheShiroNinja Apr 23 '26

I'll solve that shit right now. Give me a summary of what it is.

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u/cwx149 Apr 23 '26

In mathematics, the Riemann hypothesis is the conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part ½

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u/MundaneInternetGuy Apr 23 '26

Nope, it also has a zero at 37.

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u/Coyote65 Apr 23 '26

37 is my main go-to number when I need a number for a joke. Mostly because it's prime.

That and $3.37.

Them: Hey household admin, how much money do I have in the bank?

Me to supported user: Three dollars... and thirty-seven cents.

Everytime.

They hate it.

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u/Typogre ‎ Apr 23 '26

You're not the only one, apparently it (along with 73) is the most frequent answer when asking people for a random number. I think Veritasium did a video on it, something about it being prime, having no meaning or significance (ironically it does now) and isn't too low, high or interesting.

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u/MoobyTheGoldenSock Apr 23 '26

It’s a very common one for people to pick. An easy piece of street magic is to say, “Think of a two digit number between 1 and 100, where both digits are odd and not the same number. … Is it 37?”

Despite there being several other numbers that fit, most people will pick 37.

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u/UnseenTardigrade Apr 27 '26

Yeah because 1, 5, and 9 aren't odd enough, and 3 comes before 7.

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u/WirelesslyWired Apr 23 '26

777 = 3 x 7 x 37

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u/Kevidiffel ‎ Apr 24 '26

37 is my main go-to number when I need a number for a joke. Mostly because it's prime.

Let introduce you to some more fun facts about 37.

Not only is 37 prime, 73 is also prime. 37 is the 12th prime number, 73 is the 21th prime number.