< no public math [perpetual] >

no public math is a perpetual, self-verifying visualizer of arithmetic, conducted by the Ethereum network. Every ~12 seconds, Ethereum commits a new block. The piece takes each block’s hash, carves a multiplication problem out of it, and performs that multiplication on screen - by hand, in public, showing every step - then rests on the answer until the next block arrives and sets the next problem. It never repeats, because the chain never repeats.

The work runs as a single self-contained HTML file. No dependencies, no wallet, no backend. A browser and a public RPC endpoint are the entire stack.

The thesis it stages: multiplication is expensive; addition is honest. This is not a metaphor here. Ethereum’s own fee schedule prices a MUL opcode at 5 gas and an ADD at 3 - the trade the piece performs, decomposing one multiplication into its constituent additions, is priced by the network itself, and the piece prints the receipt.

read the mathpaper here : https://nopublicmath.netlify.app/paper