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view the source, wasn't really wordless


Is that an HTML joke?

The source says "At a mathematical meeting in New York in 1903, F. N. Cole walked on to the platform and, without saying a single word, wrote two large numbers on the blackboard. He multiplied them out in longhand, and equated the result to 2^67-1."


Which source?


Sorry, looks like the link has been change to a tweet from http://math.mit.edu/~drew/ I meant the html source of Andrew's dept homepage titled "Life, the Universe, and Everything" at that moment.


Well, pretty close anyway, technically it's only one comment...


and a new title

  $ curl -s https://math.mit.edu/~drew/ | python3 -c 'from sys import stdin as s; from html.parser import HTMLParser as P; p = P(); p.handle_data = print; p.feed(s.read())' | tr -s ' \n'
  Life, the Universe, and Everything
  (-80538738812075974)^3 + 80435758145817515^3 + 12602123297335631^3
  $




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