Fred Kline

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I retired 7 years ago and bought Mathematica and a stack of math books with the goal to teach myself to become a world-class mathematician. I am on pace to achieve that goal sometime shortly after the next Ice Age.

I consider myself a Mathematical Mutt (no papers) who occasionally ventures off the back porch to play in the yard with the big dogs.

I donate regularly to the The OEIS Foundation.

When I look at the patterns, I can hear the wheels turning. When I look at the math, I find out the hampsters have died.

I don't think the world is ready for Fred's mathematics. – Gerry Myerson, mathoverflow.net

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Nov 30	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? to add a final link
Nov 23	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Nov 17	comment	What accounts for the discrepancies in my calculations of year lengths? Back in the 1970s I developed a date software package in anticipation of the Y2K problem. I had a routine to show when the next phase of the moon would occur for a particular date and longitude. No matter what I tried, I would get error of plus/minus 1 hour (longitude.) Occasionally, Easter would calculate to a Sunday that was one week off (also caused by moon phase error.)
Nov 17	comment	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? @arivero, 1k in 1 day. The rest since then. Voting has been upvote/downvote which gives me a little rep but doesn't encourage the question.
Nov 16	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? to put in some final thoughts
Nov 16	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? to put in some final thoughts
Nov 16	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? readjusted the OEIS value back,
Nov 16	comment	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? @MitchellPorter, this is a serendipitous number. I think the kilograms pop up because of base 10. The formula I was working on was intended for an extension of the FTA for primes within finite sequences. If you strip out the $10^{26}$ and keep only the $m^2$ you have Zeta(2).
Nov 16	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? changed OEIS value here after extending it over there
Nov 15	awarded	Announcer
Nov 14	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? fixed formula and aligned numbers
Nov 13	awarded	Popular Question
Nov 13	comment	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? @EmilioPisanty, If I had this algoithm in 1958 when I was in high school, we would be comparing this number to 1.67339*10^-27 and we would be getting the same reaction.
Nov 13	comment	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? 1.6726218229590580987863882056891582636342622102204*10^-27 to precision 50.
Nov 13	comment	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? @EmilioPisanty, all I can do is show that it converges to a number. I can have the infinite sum stop when a specific precision is reached.
Nov 13	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? to tell result of convergence testing.
Nov 13	awarded	Editor
Nov 13	revised	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? add motivation paragraphs
Nov 13	comment	Have I discovered how to calculate the proton's mass using only integers? It's nothing more than the sum of the reciprocals of the products of the numbers between consecutive squares.
Nov 12	awarded	Scholar