will publish new short stories in the Haruhi Suzumiya series novels at the end of this month. Although it has been more than ten years, the Haruhi Suzumiya series still maintains its vigorous vitality. Nowadays, many people can still see many people discussing the original novels and TV animations produced by Kyoto Animation. The Haruhi Suzumiya series gradually derives the study of Haruhi, and a professor specializes in analyzing the "Endless August" in the animation "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" for artistic criticism. On 4chan, because of the discussion on the viewing order of the 2006 Haruhi Suzumiya animation, the mathematical problem of "minimum super permutation" was inadvertently involved. Someone actually gave a solution of N=14, which became the solution to the "minimum super permutation". New clues to math puzzles.
2006 version of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" animation broadcast sequence is different from the time sequence of the story, so there are often people discussing the order in which to view the 2006 version of Haruhi Suzumiya animation. On 4chan, someone mentioned that "I want to use all If you watch Haruhi Suzumiya’s 2006 animation in the possible order, how many words do you have to watch?” This question attracted the attention of the math board because it involved the “minimum super-arrangement problem” in mathematics.
"Minimum super permutation" refers to a sequence that contains all combinations of all elements. For example, the combination of two elements A and B is "AB" and "BA", then the "minimum super permutation" of the two elements A and B is " ABA", because "ABA" contains "AB" and "BA". If it is a combination of the three elements of A, B, and C, there can be six combinations of "ABC", "ACB", "BAC", "BCA", "CAB" and "CBA", and the "minimum super permutation" of the three elements of A, B and C It is "ABCABACBA" and contains all six combinations. The arrangement length of
will increase explosively according to the increase in the number of elements. The "minimum super arrangement problem" is to find the minimum super arrangement formula and proof when the number of elements is N. The "minimum super permutation problem" was proposed in 1993 and has not been formally solved for 25 years. However, someone on the 4chan math board gave a solution and proof of the Haruhi Suzumiya problem with N=14, although this solution is not formal mathematics The paper, but it became a new clue to solve the "minimum super permutation problem" and attracted the attention of mathematics researchers. Jay Pantone, a mathematics researcher at Marquette University in the United States, published a paper based on the submission on 4chan so that the mathematics community can better understand the formula and proof given by this anonymous netizen. Jay Pantone believes that he wants to see Haruhi in all possible combinations For the 2006 version of Kasuga's animation, at least 93,924.23 million 411 words need to be watched.
Although the "minimum super permutation problem" may be solved this time, there is no need for any practical application except for the discussion of the order of the 2006 version of Haruhi Suzumiya's animation. But in Jay Pantone's eyes, this is normal. It may take decades for mathematical formulas to be applied to human life after they are discovered. This discussion on the "Kasuga Problem" on the 4cha mathematics board proves that it is not necessary to be a professional mathematician to understand mathematics and advance the frontiers of mathematics. Development, the beauty of mathematics is that anyone can understand these problems.
