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Is this another case of knowable unknowables?

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Nick Thompson
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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of jon zingale
Sent: Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Ramsey a pragmatist mathmatician?

"Suppose aliens invade the earth and threaten to obliterate it in a year's time 
unless human beings can find the Ramsey number for red five and blue five. We 
could marshal the world's best minds and fastest computers, and within a year 
we could probably calculate the value. If the aliens demanded the Ramsey number 
for red six and blue six, however, we would have no choice but to launch a 
preemptive attack."
- Paul Erdős



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