xkcd 2861: X Value

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The value of n is still unknown, but new results constrain it to fall between 8 and 10^500, ruling out popular 'n=1' and 'n=2' theories.

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X = 10, learn your Roman numerals
Close, but it's actually 5 and the biggest German newspaper covered it a decade ago. Also: I feel old now.
- To be clear for non-Germans: "Der Postillon" is a satire-newspaper and only calls itself "The biggest German daily newspaper of the World". 😅
  
  Edit: typo dayly > daily
  
  I'm not even sure they call themself that but they have "honest news, independent, fast since 1845" and they "report before they investigate", that's how fast they are. They are the equivalent of The Onion I would say
https://explainxkcd.com/2861/
- The specific number 4.1083 does not have any notable significance or special role in the contexts of physics, chemistry, finance, astronomy or cryptography.[citation needed] 4.1083 (or at least 4.108) has been referenced previously in comic 899: Number Line.
- Gonna go with the last one in the discussion part
  
  TWTR earlier this month had a market cap of $41.09bn
  
  Curious, according to whom? Outside of just unsourced reports of its market cap, the estimates on its valuation are less than half that number.
  
  I really cannot find a news source.
  
  Market cap? It's a private company, it doesn't have a market cap.
Wake me up when they figure out epsilon
- Let epsilon be a large number
  
  This makes me irrationally uncomfortable.
80085 = XXX

X = 43.103948978092

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