@TeresaLisbon "Can't mathematicians discuss without context and so on?"
No.
They absolutely f'ing cannot.
No mathematics exists in a vacuum (except, perhaps, Galileo's thought experiment about a rock and a feather in a vacuum).
It is often possible for educated or experienced mathematicians to infer context and motivation from the very statement of a question, but this is a very distinct idea, and the oh-so-transparent context is likely to be entirely opaque to a neophyte, or a non-specialist.
@XanderHenderson The fate of that question : the user deleted all their comments here, and my last comment was a desperate attempt (but still a correct fact in isolation) to try and elicit some kind of response. We can delete the question.
The "Obama" question, as I'd like to call it from now on.
@ArcticChar Right after the deletion of the linked post, two of my answers (1, 2) got downvoted. I suspect the downvoter is the very author of the offensive post.
A proof that $\pi!$ is irrational is probably out of reach. If it is rational with $\frac{p}{q}$ in the lowest terms, $p$ and $q$ must have more than $5\ 000$ digits.
@Peter That is crazily high! I wish there was a heuristic argument, but I guess it's THAT far out of reach that we don't have anything more than the numerics to run with.
Extended to $10\ 000$ digits (I used the best-appr command in PARI/GP based on the continued fraction expansion). I think, we have in fact nothing more than numerical evidence. Irrationality proofs are usually extremely difficult.
Delete this question eventually I looked at the other page regarding the similarity of attempts : but I feel that it doesn't make sense because the author hasn't pointed out where they went wrong while following that approach.
(I wrote some comments over there , because I don't want the usage of other posts' attempts to create attempt-based context to become a precedent).
@Peter Unfortunately not , but for a different reason : I have to do some ODE plotting , so those guys are running simultaneously with LLR, and Python , even though it takes less CPE than others, still takes enough to heat my laptop above the 45 degree threshold, which is supposed to be very dangerous. So I must be careful : once the ODE plots finish I'll let you know.
@soupless In modern (American) English, it is "coordinates". If you want to be a bit of a ponce, "coördinates" is also correct. But very few writers of English use those lovely diaereses. :D
@XanderHenderson @XanderHenderson @soupless you can use co-ordinates still in British English as well. And also Xander's diareses, though people might wonder if you've arrived recently from the early 1900s :)
@XanderHenderson I fully understand that now, but you overgeneralized in your first comment. Thank you for "more context" that should have been included in that first post. ;P
Until I find a handy key I can click to do that on my keyboard, I'm sorry I'll likely disappoint.
Ohhhh, that! I though it was a Windows key, but never knew it had any use. So do what keys to I press, in order, or simultaneously, and do you mean to type vowel or the sequence [vowel]
@Xander Saad's post, starred and linked on the right hand column is indeed a problem. After their post, I encountered seven suggested edits from the same suggested editor, that merely capitalized the first letter in the title of a question, and other minor edits.
@amWhy True, it is definitely a luxury, an indulgence of sorts! If anything , though, I just think having a schedule in place is going to be very helpful at the moment. I needed to get a few things together : just like the coronavirus peak here in India, I hope my peak has gone as well (not completely : my grandmother still needs about 4 jabs of the rabies vaccine, and visiting the hospital each time is going to really take away my time!)
@amWhy That's true : I've had 10 of them as well, and they aren't painful, but after so many visits and jabs in the same place one is just overwrought! I still hope the peak is gone, though. Life is difficult, it really is.
