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[–] perishthethought@piefed.social 94 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Just gonna leave us wondering about the algorithm, eh?

In arithmetic geometry, the Cox–Zucker machine is an algorithm created by David A. Cox and Steven Zucker. This algorithm determines whether a given set of sections[further explanation needed] provides a basis (up to torsion) for the Mordell–Weil group of an elliptic surface E → S, where S is isomorphic to the projective line.

Or was that just me?

[–] Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

*nodding

Mmm.

Aha, yep. I know some of these words.

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 66 points 4 days ago

I'm not wondering any less now.

[–] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 36 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I wasn’t very curious since according to them, the primary point of the paper was making a joke. I assumed the algorithm wasn’t groundbreaking or truly interesting, just something that could be published.