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Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

Warm-upHuman

The Fermat numbers are Fn=22n+1F_n = 2^{2^n} + 1. What is the smallest nn for which FnF_n is not prime?

Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

Warm-upHuman

Let φ=(1+5)/2\varphi = (1 + \sqrt5)/2. Which vector is an integer relation for (φ2,φ,1)(\varphi^2, \varphi, 1)?

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Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

CoreHuman

Which of these are honest, adequately specified reports of a counterexample search for Goldbach's conjecture? (Choose all that apply.)

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Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

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At 100 digits, PSLQ finds a relation with coefficients of size below 100100 among six constants, with residual 10−9510^{-95}; at 200 digits the same relation holds to 10−19510^{-195}. What may you claim?

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Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

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Among the primes p≤50p \le 50, let TT be the number with p≡3(mod4)p \equiv 3 \pmod 4 and OO the number with p≡1(mod4)p \equiv 1 \pmod 4. Compute T−OT - O.

Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

CoreHuman

In the proof of the BBP formula, which step needs an analytic justification rather than algebra alone?

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Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

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With fermat n = 2 ^ (2 ^ n) + 1, which Lean statement says that Fermat's conjecture is false?

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Experimental mathematics: conjectures and counterexamples

CoreHuman

Which conjecture would be refuted by a finite counterexample that a computer can check, whatever form the counterexample takes?

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