Timeline for Implications of the disproof of the "climb-to-a-prime" conjecture
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| Jun 26, 2023 at 22:47 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | And another, on oeis.org | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 22:46 | comment | added | Lee Mosher | The link in the previous comment broke. Here's a new one. | |
| Jun 26, 2023 at 20:36 | answer | added | Timothy Chow | timeline score: 12 | |
| Sep 18, 2018 at 12:49 | vote | accept | Carlo Beenakker | ||
| Feb 8, 2018 at 7:01 | comment | added | Taras Banakh | It would be helpful to add the link (cheswick.com/ches/conway1000.pdf) to the list of Conway's problems containing his "climb-to-a-prime conjecture" under number 5. | |
| Jun 10, 2017 at 5:53 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | 100 years ago, Dudeney noticed $2^59^2=2592$. If only 9 were prime.... | |
| Jun 9, 2017 at 22:12 | history | edited | Carlo Beenakker |
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| Jun 9, 2017 at 20:28 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Do there exist more non-prime fixed points than a heuristic argument would suggest? If so then that might lead to an interesting mathematical insight. | |
| Jun 9, 2017 at 16:38 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 9, 2017 at 16:20 | answer | added | James Davis | timeline score: 48 | |
| Jun 9, 2017 at 15:41 | comment | added | spin | I guess the answer would be no, but demonstrating that might be impossible. Are there any implications of interest in various other puzzles/results involving patterns in base-10 digits of a number? | |
| Jun 9, 2017 at 15:12 | history | asked | Carlo Beenakker | CC BY-SA 3.0 |