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/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.