What is the largest formula in mathematics? Does anyone know?

[neat flower]

largest as in popular? innovation? actual length?

[smoky ocean]

Bigger in terms of size

[uncut silo]

2+2

[hot sleet]

There is no biggest formula really as they all can be endlessly complex and massive, just as there is no “biggest number”.

Was it examples that you wanted?

[smoky ocean]

This one is really large

[smoky ocean]

I want one that doesn’t involve infinite series

[uncut silo]

But, seriously, in my opinion, it might be Einstein’s Field equations.

[regal pine]

Probably Quartic is getting there

It’s that gap of you can read it on an image or not

[neat flower]

Yeah i was thinking Quartic Polynomial equation

[lofty loom]

these are the longest ones i could find in google

its the langragian form/deconstructed form of standard model eqn of particle ohysics

this thingy basically explains everything we know about particle physics in the MOST compact form

despite what it looks like so

yh

[smoky ocean]

This is huge! But I think the quartic equation formula is bigger because there are 4 roots, meaning for each root there’s a small variation, and putting it all together makes it really massive

[lofty loom]

youre right- the expanded form of quartic equation formula is deffo bigger

but the langragian formula is more of a model than a formula

whereas quartic equation is a formula

so yours answers the question better

[smoky ocean]

Yeah, there really won’t be anything bigger without using infinite series

[lofty loom]

yeah and infinite series doesnt rlly count tbf xD

[smoky ocean]

Looking at it, it really is

[lofty loom]

the interesting part is more the fact that its literally just the FULL theory of particle phsyics and everything scientists know about it written in the most compact form they could think of

its talking about how particles interact with each other and shit

[smoky ocean]

Wow, it’s really complex, I didn’t even know that

[lofty loom]

if you tried to expand it, you would get the literal entire theory of particle physics

it uses a lot of shortforms and sigma notations and still takes that long to write, and apparently even people who’ve taken bachelors in particle physics can barely understand the barebones of it

and even struggle to understand the simplified (as in more simple, not more compact) forms of it

😭 physics you asshole

anyway, im infodumping cuz i thought this was interesting

tell me more about the quartic eqn

cuz i know barely anything abt it

[smoky ocean]

Hahaha, something this big and complex is hard to understand. I’ve only seen things like the golden ratio, Euler’s constant, the partial derivative symbol

[lofty loom]

the partial derivative symbol 😭 that thing

is deceptively simple looking

[smoky ocean]

sorry

[lofty loom]

lmaoo

its ok

i was wondering why you wrote full spanish

[smoky ocean]

I wrote it in another language

[smoky ocean]

The quartic equation has 4 roots, a formula that nobody uses, but if you understand the cubic, you understand the quartic. It has Vieta’s relations, and other than that I think there’s nothing more, but the quartic function is more interesting

[lofty loom]

ye i figured- are you spanish speaking?

like

is your mothertongue spanish

[smoky ocean]

I speak Portuguese

[lofty loom]

ohh

sorry i get confused between them because they look slightly similar

[smoky ocean]

no problem

[lofty loom]

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thank you for explaining

[smoky ocean]

You’re welcome