system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
But...what IS the anti-life equation?

Darkseid is always after it. I believe others want it too. 

Yet it is just some sort of mathematical proof...? Which, spoken aloud, while somehow avoiding its effects on himself, what could he DO with it and how does it work?
gpt
To understand the anti-life equation there are some baseline things that need to be established.  One is it requires an immense intellect to "get" it without being destroyed or rendered catatonic.  The other assumption that you need to make is that magic and science are two routes to the same place, knowledge.  A lesser bit of trivia is demonology; that is to say knowing the true name of an entity gives you dominion over it.

With these two (technically three) established the Anti-Life Equation is like learning the ultimate spell.  In learning the true name of life, you have the power to strip it of all of it power.  Darkseid wants it because he hates sentient life.  He hates the idea of people being able to resist him.