Collatz_problem [comrade/them]

the graph of this equation looks like a smooth, looping curve, which is where the name “elliptic” comes from.

No, the name doesn’t come from this. It is named elliptic curve, because it can be parametrized with elliptic functions, which arose as inverses to elliptic integrals, which arose from calculating the length of ellipse arcs.

You can be tracked with reasonable precision just by data on cell base tower connections.

Free time.

Consistency of an axiomatic system that contains arithmetic can be proven in this system if and only if it is inconsistent.

Americans are not flirting with Nazism. They dated it, married it and had many children with it.

Being able to extract profit is more important to individual capitalist than maintaining the system in the long run. See: climate change.