Nassim Nicholas Taleb
@nntaleb
Flaneur: probability (philosophy), probability (mathematics), probability (real life),Phoenician wine, deadlifts & dead languages. Greco-Levantine.Canaan. #RWRI#
Joined September 2011
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This is a trap for people who try solving it using √2^x=x and find 2 since it is also true for x=4.
This formula may look a bit strange to you, but that is the beauty of mathematics—sometimes you get a mathematical result in an astonishing way.
