If a non-mathematician wanted to conjecture something and had strong numerical evidence to support the conjecture, how would he/she go about doing so? Would the mathematical community
(a) take it seriously?
(b) even look at it?
2026-03-26 04:48:26.1774500506
making mathematical conjectures
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