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44 Conjectures of Stephen Wolfram Disproved

Posted by kdawson on from the new-kind-of-error dept.

Richard Pritches writes in to let us know that MIT errata expert Evangelos Georgiadis has disproved 44 conjectures set by Dr. Stephen Wolfram (founder of Mathematica) in A New Kind of Science. The paper was published in the latest issue of the Journal of Cellular Automata and can be read in PDF form at Prof Edwin Clark's collection of reviews of Wolfram's ANKS. "The formulas provided by Wolfram for these [44] rules are not minimal. Moreover for 8 of these cannot be minimal even by simple inspection since minimal formula sizes for 3-input Boolean functions over this basis never exceeds 5."

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  1. Re:Watch out for the roundhouse kick by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Chuck Norris versus Evangelos

  2. Re:Slightly different boolean formula by Asstrophene · · Score: -1, Troll

    Ah but you left out a crucial point

  3. yuHo fail it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    or make lou3 noises

  4. Re:What happened to proofreading? by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 1, Troll

    Proofreading? On Slashdot? You must be new here!

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  5. Re:English anyone?? by OrangeTide · · Score: 1, Troll

    People on the internet are too busy typing to be bothered with reading.

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  6. Re:Slightly different boolean formula by Nimey · · Score: 0, Troll

    That is a very inflammatory title. On Slashdot?. Never!
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  7. DON'T BE SUCH A PUSSY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are a gigantic pussy. That by itself is already bad enough, but now you're trying to push your pussyness onto others and turn other people into gigantic pussies. Nobody likes you, so just die already.

  8. Quite mindblowing 44 out of 256 were incorrect by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Given that Dr Stephen Wolfram has trillions of Phd slaves working for him, it is quite a thing that on one page there are 44 incorrect statements. Well done to Evangelos!