Timeline for Not especially famous, long-open problems which anyone can understand
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 23:13 | comment | added | user49512 | So put that in the answer then. | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 17:06 | comment | added | Ian Morris | @MilesRout, I have to disagree. The requirement is that it has understandable formulations. Suppose you multiply $3/2$ by itself $n$ times. What's the first digit after the decimal point? Can it be anything you want (for at least one value of $n$) or are there forbidden values? What about the first two digits, can you make them be anything you like by choosing $n$ correctly? What about the first 100 digits, can we make those be anything we want by choosing the right $n$? If $N \geq 1$ is given, can we fix the first $N$ digits after the decimal point to be anything we want them to be? | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 2:51 | comment | added | user49512 | I think this squarely fails the 'anyone can understand it' requirement. | |
| Nov 11, 2015 at 3:51 | comment | added | Wadim Zudilin | In my youth I did a modest contribution to the related Mahler 3/2 problem (dx.doi.org/10.5802/jtnb.588). | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:35 | comment | added | Andrés E. Caicedo | An excellent reference is the recent book Distribution modulo one and Diophantine approximation, by Yann Bugeaud. | |
| Jan 6, 2014 at 19:21 | history | edited | Victor Protsak | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
references to Mahler and another version
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| Jul 25, 2012 at 11:11 | history | edited | Ian Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2012 at 16:08 | history | edited | Ian Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 12, 2012 at 16:03 | history | answered | Ian Morris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |