There exists at least one prime number which, when interpreted as GIF, JPEG, or PNG-encoded data, represents an image from one of Traci Lords' child porn films, and is thus illegal in the United States.
The first person to successfully prove or disprove Janke's Conjecture wins a prize. The only prize we give out here- a date with Reify. Note: padding the number with non-image data, such as text or spurious chunks in a PNG, doesn't count.
If you think you have proven the conjecture by discovering an (in)appropriate number, DO NOT send your winning entries to me. DO NOT email illegal numbers to me or any of my friends.
This actually opens up a whole new area of research. All sorts of numbers could be discovered to be illegal because they were encodings of visual or textual child pornography. Double prize for the first person to get an issue of American Journal of Mathematics banned in the United States as kiddie porn.
Comments (3)
I spent some time on it...and nothing came out of it. Hell, my processor wasn't doing anything anyway. Just saving up for the MP Board
Posted by nameht | April 3, 2002 10:11 AM
Posted on April 3, 2002 10:11
you bastard, spell it right: janke's conjecture. If you're going to be the #2 google search for "reify Traci Lords", let's get some accuracy.
:)
Posted by janke | August 2, 2002 1:22 PM
Posted on August 2, 2002 13:22
bah, fixed.
Posted by takeru | August 2, 2002 1:30 PM
Posted on August 2, 2002 13:30