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In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

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A math problem has left the internet stumped and social media users scrambling from their nearest protractor to figure it out. “I’m a school maths teacher… and I can’t solve it,” Seagull admitted in ...