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Adam P. Goucher
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Extending a line-arrangement so that the bounded components of its complement are triangles
Observe that it is possible to extend an arrangement to one that is `quadrilateralating away from infinity' by superimposing a sufficiently large square mesh (two perpendicular families of parallel lines), where the squares are sufficiently small that all lines that intersect the square pass through a single point.
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Iterated Automorphism Groups
Oops, there are non-Abelian groups with Abelian automorphism groups: mathoverflow.net/questions/9944/when-is-autg-abelian That kills my entire argument.
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Iterated Automorphism Groups
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Math puzzles for dinner
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Any results towards the irrationality of the sum of reciprocals of perfect numbers?
I don't think that the denominators increase sufficiently rapidly for the usual Liouville-esque proof to apply, without assuming Lenstra-Pomerance-Wagstaff. What argument for irrationality are you suggesting?
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Any results towards the irrationality of the sum of reciprocals of perfect numbers?
Oh, yes, I meant Mersenne primes. Thanks. I'll edit the comment accordingly.
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Puzzle on deleting k bits from binary vectors of length 3k
Oh, I see that $H(12,4) = 10$ has already been established in another answer, using almost the same construction.