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Alex Kontorovich on the Absolute Truth of Pure Math

The Joy of x

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Theorem: Almost All Numbers Are Squares

There's a big difference. You're not claiming that it's simply true. It's sure a different ye, right. Tell us about that. I mean, well, we, we, i sort of stated it in this probalistic er interpretation, ye. Butthe the theorem is, there's this ratio, and that ratio goes to one. That's it. Now, you could have, let's say, just look look in the numbers. Almost all numbers are not squares. A hundred % of numbers are not square numbers. Ah, you take that that ratio, that ratio has a limit, and that limit is zero. So none of the numbers are square. Well

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