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vitriol83today at 5:03 PM1 replyview on HN

the Ramanujan one has some relatively high powered mathematical explanation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heegner_number


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exochronotoday at 5:41 PM

Wikipedia also notes that “Ramanjuan’s constant” was actually discovered by Charles Hermite in 1859 and it was a 1975 April Fools article in Scientific American that attributed it to Ramanujan.

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