Q: Is there an equation that determines whether a question gets answered on ask a mathematician/physicist?

Mathematician: Yes, but neither the Physicist nor I know it, and its shortest representation in standard mathematical notation is much too long to ever be written down. More precisely, there are an infinite number of such equations. These equations “exist” in the same sense that an equation describing the current position of every hair on your head exists. But these equations do not exist in the same sense that Chicago exists.

 

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4 Responses to Q: Is there an equation that determines whether a question gets answered on ask a mathematician/physicist?

  1. huzzah says:

    How much data (questions and questions answered) would be necessary for finding an approximate equation that determines whether a question gets answered on ask a mathematician/physicist?

  2. Damon says:

    Perhaps you could throw buckingham pi theorem at that problem and get an equation that would work (maybe just about) .

  3. Ron says:

    Of course there is!! Probability ‘P’ = 0/0, lol

  4. Bob says:

    By the way, 0/0 equals any real number. Proof: To find the value of 1/2, you find a value, that, when multiplied by 2 (the denominator), equals 1. That value happens to be 0.5. Now, what value multiplied by 0 equals 0? Any real number! (new paragraph) This leads to another question: Are there an infinite number of theorems?

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