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Mathematicians Have Found The Ninth Dedekind Number, After 32 Years of Searching (www.sciencealert.com)
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[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

rapidly growing

1 found in 32 years

[-] Pirky@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Lol, I thought that at first, but I'm pretty sure it's in how much larger the next number is to the last one.

[-] Cosmicomical@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Yes that's what it means, what is rapidly growing is the value of the next number in the sequence, not the amount of numbers we discovered!

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