As well as prizes for the best student talks, this year in the run up to MIMUC 2024 we are giving all participants the opportunity to take part in a competition to win a £50 Amazon voucher! Click HERE to enter!

How will the competition work?

• The competition is open to anybody who registers for and attends MIMUC 2024.

• The competition opened on Monday 4th March.

• The competition closes on Tuesday 9th April.

• The winning entry will receive a £50 Amazon voucher! And there may be other prizes...

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What is the smallest positive real number you can specify in six words?

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Rules

Identify a positive, nonzero real number. Write down your answer using at most 6 words, and submit it. The entry with the smallest number wins!

• You can only use the Latin alphabet. No symbols! No digits!

• Hyphens count as spaces (so ninety-nine is two words).

• You can only use words (and meanings of words) that appear in the Cambridge Dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/ ).

• It must be a number that can be computed and written down explicitly.

• It must be non ambiguous, meaning well-defined and uniquely determined.

 

Examples

• ❌ "e to the minus one billion" - 'e' is not defined in the provided dictionary as the Nepero number.

• ❌ "Inverse of the largest known prime." - unclear what the largest known prime is.

• ✔️ "One divided by ten googolplexes" - Great!

 

Multiple entries are allowed. Only one prize can be won per person. We encourage every attendee to submit one!

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Please note that to qualify for the prize you must:

• Complete this form to register for MIMUC 2024.

• Complete this form with your competition entry.

• Register your attendance in person at the conference on at least one of the two dates.

 

The winner of the competition will be announced during the conference.