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Dude working @Subway @ 43yo is one of world's best mathematician

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150402-prime-proof-zhang-in...
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  04/16/15
*sandwich autist
vibrant hateful national
  05/03/15
I had the following written on my food truck all day yesterd...
translucent dashing parlor
  05/03/15
evan39 can still maek it
Vigorous crotch digit ratio
  04/16/15
Sounds like that asshole Daniel Brou was his adviser
Gay Location
  04/16/15
Dude had a Phd, just was nojob pwned for a whiel.
Cheese-eating university
  04/16/15
Even so, he didn't get a PhD until age 36. People usually s...
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  04/16/15
30 is young!
Aquamarine supple sweet tailpipe
  04/16/15
I'd probably be head chief of math in his country.
bearded bright mental disorder
  04/16/15
he wasn't even asst manager?
Exhilarant pozpig
  04/16/15
a modern day Bill Sidis
Smoky comical dog poop jap
  04/16/15
lolno. sidis never actually accomplished anything.
Slippery cuckoldry garrison
  04/16/15
He realized the truth about the origins of the American Indi...
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  04/21/15
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Irate Sex Offender Shitlib
  05/03/15
They should have him in an ad with Jared
Bateful Massive Temple
  04/16/15
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Exhilarant pozpig
  04/16/15
"By 2009, he had turned his attention to the twin prime...
Exhilarant pozpig
  04/16/15
sounds like he was doing more good for society making subs
Awkward aromatic dingle berry feces
  04/16/15
(xo 2015
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  04/16/15
Cr
House-broken startling trust fund genital piercing
  04/21/15
what is unclear? no one could prove the following statement ...
Talented tanning salon dysfunction
  04/21/15
And if this was proven, what the fuck would happen next?
thriller aggressive state stock car
  05/03/15
his scholarship on queuing theory is prolific
floppy idiot
  04/16/15
this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs ...
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swashbuckling laser beams
  05/03/15
"this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial ...
Swollen cerebral old irish cottage regret
  05/03/15
All and all, a 180 story. I feel good for him.
Big-titted clear affirmative action personal credit line
  04/21/15
could this bro even get interviews at top quant hedge funds?
Motley Sanctuary
  04/21/15
so he proved there is always a next prime number, at least w...
Chest-beating bistre plaza love of her life
  04/21/15
Nope, what you wrote is actually false
Talented tanning salon dysfunction
  05/03/15
no. 1. it's very easy to prove that there are infinitely m...
hairraiser area
  05/03/15
lol.
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  05/03/15
theory of primes seems useless if you're an xo 2015 prole or...
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  05/03/15
LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encrypti...
Talented tanning salon dysfunction
  05/03/15
LJL. you're an autistic loser. the point is that the polis...
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  05/03/15
XOers aren't qualified to judge but neither are you which is...
Talented tanning salon dysfunction
  05/03/15
i didn't say i was particularly qualified, just that results...
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  05/03/15
lol @ you thinking I heard of the prime number theorem from ...
Talented tanning salon dysfunction
  05/04/15
fgt
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  05/03/15
(pensive feeling massively inadequate after reading this pos...
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  05/03/15
lol, ty also lol @ "nowag"
Azure codepig school cafeteria
  05/03/15
"This is a significant result because when you think ab...
Talented tanning salon dysfunction
  05/03/15
cr. i didn't mean to imply the average distance between 2 pr...
hairraiser area
  05/03/15
The figure I quoted is from the prime number theorem which i...
Talented tanning salon dysfunction
  05/03/15
lol @ tao's minions' fingerprints all over shitwiki
hairraiser area
  05/03/15
oh i get it. wow, that means there will always be primes tha...
Chest-beating bistre plaza love of her life
  05/03/15
you are right 2 scoff at the bound. in fact, 70 million is s...
hairraiser area
  05/03/15
lol.... yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 millio...
Chest-beating bistre plaza love of her life
  05/03/15
In honor of this bro, a special 180: (17,051,887)-(17,051...
Azure codepig school cafeteria
  05/03/15
...
Swollen cerebral old irish cottage regret
  05/03/15
holy shit r those primes
hairraiser area
  05/03/15
http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/10945/
Diverse Ceo Parlour
  05/03/15
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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:48 AM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150402-prime-proof-zhang-interview/

I know this is old, but holy shit. He was literally a 43 yo Subway sandwich artist, and now he is one of the world's most respected mathematicians.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701114)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:05 PM
Author: vibrant hateful national

*sandwich autist

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815333)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:08 PM
Author: translucent dashing parlor

I had the following written on my food truck all day yesterday:

"Bootstrappers Food Truck: The Sandwich Autists"

look up my previous threads to see a pic of that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815365)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 9:54 AM
Author: Vigorous crotch digit ratio

evan39 can still maek it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701136)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:00 AM
Author: Gay Location

Sounds like that asshole Daniel Brou was his adviser

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701163)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:06 AM
Author: Cheese-eating university

Dude had a Phd, just was nojob pwned for a whiel.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701193)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:45 AM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

Even so, he didn't get a PhD until age 36. People usually say mathematicians are washed up after 30 or 35. And usually if you don't get at least a postdoc straight out of your PhD, you're considered det in the academic world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701366)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:07 AM
Author: Aquamarine supple sweet tailpipe

30 is young!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701200)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:32 AM
Author: bearded bright mental disorder

I'd probably be head chief of math in his country.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701316)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:33 AM
Author: Exhilarant pozpig

he wasn't even asst manager?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701319)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 10:54 AM
Author: Smoky comical dog poop jap

a modern day Bill Sidis

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701394)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:31 AM
Author: Slippery cuckoldry garrison

lolno. sidis never actually accomplished anything.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701607)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 5:58 PM
Author: frisky son of senegal cumskin

He realized the truth about the origins of the American Indian

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732369)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: Irate Sex Offender Shitlib



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815638)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: Bateful Massive Temple

They should have him in an ad with Jared

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701626)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: Exhilarant pozpig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701631)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:34 AM
Author: Exhilarant pozpig

"By 2009, he had turned his attention to the twin primes conjecture, which postulates that there are an infinite number of prime number pairs with a difference of two. Examples of twin prime pairs include 5 and 7, 11 and 13, and 17 and 19, but no one could prove that these pairs continue to exist all the way up the number line. In fact, no one could prove that there is any bounded prime gap at all, that primes don’t just grow infinitely far apart."

lololwut.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701630)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:41 AM
Author: Awkward aromatic dingle berry feces

sounds like he was doing more good for society making subs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701676)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:44 AM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

(xo 2015

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701698)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:00 PM
Author: House-broken startling trust fund genital piercing

Cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732685)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 6:10 PM
Author: Talented tanning salon dysfunction

what is unclear? no one could prove the following statement until him: There is a number K such that there are an infinite number of pairs of primes p_1 and p_2 such that p_2 = p_1 + K.

"Twin primes" are when K = 2. If I remember right, people have proved there is a K <= 246 for which that's true.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732449)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:34 PM
Author: thriller aggressive state stock car

And if this was proven, what the fuck would happen next?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815594)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 11:43 AM
Author: floppy idiot

his scholarship on queuing theory is prolific

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701692)



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Date: April 16th, 2015 12:10 PM
Author: nudist charcoal crackhouse antidepressant drug

this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs

it makes sense, too. it allows them to develop their mental abilities because they don't have to waste brain power earning a living. remember this next time you get upset with the cashier at a fast food restaurant. he just might be the next Einstein!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27701811)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:25 PM
Author: swashbuckling laser beams



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815498)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM
Author: Swollen cerebral old irish cottage regret

"this proves that brilliant people are drawn to menial jobs"

no it doesn't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815621)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:13 PM
Author: Big-titted clear affirmative action personal credit line

All and all, a 180 story. I feel good for him.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732746)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:25 PM
Author: Motley Sanctuary

could this bro even get interviews at top quant hedge funds?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732808)



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Date: April 21st, 2015 7:44 PM
Author: Chest-beating bistre plaza love of her life

so he proved there is always a next prime number, at least within whatevermillion integers? big fucking deal, im sure im gonna sleep better now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27732909)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:10 PM
Author: Talented tanning salon dysfunction

Nope, what you wrote is actually false

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815375)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:16 PM
Author: hairraiser area

no.

1. it's very easy to prove that there are infinitely many prime numbers period. you learn how to prove it in any number theory class

2. what the nowag proved is that there are infinitely many pairs of prime numbers that are less than 70 million apart from each other.

This is a significant result because when you think about it you might think that primes drift farther and farther apart from each other the farther out you go to infinity. The nowag proved this is wrong

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815434)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:18 PM
Author: submissive sound barrier keepsake machete

lol.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815446)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:23 PM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

theory of primes seems useless if you're an xo 2015 prole or polisci shithead, but it's a backbone of ecommerce and will probably be 1 billion times more useful than anything you'll ever accomplish.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815478)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:26 PM
Author: Talented tanning salon dysfunction

LJL. "The theory of primes" is useful for encryption but his work has absolutely no relevance to that.

He's still awesome

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815509)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:31 PM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

LJL. you're an autistic loser. the point is that the polisci shitheads on this website wouldn't find use for any prime number results at all, let alone such a significant. xoers aren't qualified to judge the future usefulness of his work.

also, you're a fucking tool for putting "theory of primes" in quotation marks like that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815570)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: Talented tanning salon dysfunction

XOers aren't qualified to judge but neither are you which is pretty obvious from your posts (JJC, I'm guessing?). It's funny that you think actually knowing what I'm talking about makes me an autistic loser



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815623)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:39 PM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

i didn't say i was particularly qualified, just that results in that field have proven incredibly useful. why is that so hard for you to understand? are you ESL or just extremely autistic?

btw, you're not particularly qualified to judge it either, despite your wikipedia search abilities.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815656)



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Date: May 4th, 2015 1:08 AM
Author: Talented tanning salon dysfunction

lol @ you thinking I heard of the prime number theorem from wikipedia. I learned more mathematics this weekend than you did your entire life. Enjoy dat gaped asshole, ignoramus

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27817184)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:41 PM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

fgt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815692)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:19 PM
Author: hyperactive confused organic girlfriend national security agency

(pensive feeling massively inadequate after reading this post)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815450)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:24 PM
Author: Azure codepig school cafeteria

lol, ty

also lol @ "nowag"



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815487)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:22 PM
Author: Talented tanning salon dysfunction

"This is a significant result because when you think about it you might think that primes drift farther and farther apart from each other the farther out you go to infinity. The nowag proved this is wrong"

That's also not exactly true. The density of primes goes to 0 (that is, count the number of primes less than N. that number will be about N/log(N)). He just proved that there is an exceptional set of pairs of primes whose difference is bounded uniformly by something big (but was later reduced to something like a few hundred)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815475)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:27 PM
Author: hairraiser area

cr. i didn't mean to imply the average distance between 2 primes couldn't grow arbitrarily large. I still didn't know it DID which is what you're saying

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815528)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:29 PM
Author: Talented tanning salon dysfunction

The figure I quoted is from the prime number theorem which is one of the GOATUS theorems of all time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815548)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:37 PM
Author: hairraiser area

lol @ tao's minions' fingerprints all over shitwiki

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815631)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:32 PM
Author: Chest-beating bistre plaza love of her life

oh i get it. wow, that means there will always be primes that are pretty close to each other..well, if 70 million counts as close. wow, that is actually quite mind bending in and of itself to think about. that blows my mind.

edit: wait, whats this twin prime shit? ok im a retard, i have to admit. i wish i was smarter.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815577)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:36 PM
Author: hairraiser area

you are right 2 scoff at the bound. in fact, 70 million is such a big number that some mystics &legal scholars have considered it 2 be bigger than infinity

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815622)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:38 PM
Author: Chest-beating bistre plaza love of her life

lol....

yeah considering infinity and all that, 70 million IS quite a large number.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815644)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:28 PM
Author: Azure codepig school cafeteria

In honor of this bro, a special 180:

(17,051,887)-(17,051,707)



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815531)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:40 PM
Author: Swollen cerebral old irish cottage regret



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815675)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:48 PM
Author: hairraiser area

holy shit r those primes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815791)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 9:59 PM
Author: Diverse Ceo Parlour

http://www.bigprimes.net/archive/prime/10945/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815876)



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Date: May 3rd, 2015 10:08 PM
Author: Outnumbered dopamine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2856558&forum_id=2#27815929)