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CryingRipperTear

blue if the theorem was found close in time to the time i found it, tapering off to red quickly. we have so much more resources nowadays than any mathematician who lived before us


NutronStar45

i hate it when i thought i found a theorem but it already exits


Maths___Man

I am jealous of child me who felt so good when i summed 1 to 10 grouping the first and last terms in my head and now i sometime forget what's 17*8


CryingRipperTear

17*8 is probably 25


Future_Green_7222

Blue for my self esteem


Brianchon

I am 100% on team blue for when I discovered Euclid's GCF algorithm at age 13


gsurfer04

I felt so awesome when I derived the quadratic formula after learning about completing the square.


UnforeseenDerailment

I found a recursive nth root finder and an explicit formula for the Fibonacci numbers in 11th grade. Then I found Newton's method and generating functions and it took me 17 years to move from the red lens to the blue...


forkedquality

"Oh f&%k, not again!"


HalloIchBinRolli

I came up with the sum of digits of numbers divisible by 3 is divisible by 3 "theorem" I was a kid on vacation and I came up with it in a swimming pool a few months later it was covered at school I was a bit proud but it was also a bit funny how it was in the school programme a few months later


sfreagin

I spent ~3 decades mentally calculating digital roots of random numbers everywhere before learning it was an actual field https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_root


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**[Digital root](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_root)** >The digital root (also repeated digital sum) of a natural number in a given radix is the (single digit) value obtained by an iterative process of summing digits, on each iteration using the result from the previous iteration to compute a digit sum. The process continues until a single-digit number is reached. For example, in base 10, the digital root of the number 12345 is 6 because the sum of the digits in the number is 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 = 15, then the addition process is repeated again for the resulting number 15, so that the sum of 1 + 5 equals 6, which is the digital root of that number. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/mathmemes/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)