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Razengan ◴[21 Oct 25 20:10 UTC] No.45661030[source]▶

I've been trying to understand as much of "maths" as I can (now enough to write that in quotes, as there isn't a "single" maths) and still a layman, I love reading about discoveries like these, and the fact that you still can have discoveries in things thought to be so fundamental..

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1. jkrshnmenon ◴[21 Oct 25 22:30 UTC] No.45662548[source]▶

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I'm also trying to understand the implications of this work.

Does it imply that some for some functions F(x) = y, you can compute x given the value of y without computing the inverse of F ?

If so, what constraints does F need to meet for this ?

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