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An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry
For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have studied a deceptively simple question: if you place nnn points in the plane, how many pairs of points can be exactly distance 111 apart?
TL;DR
- Mathematicians have studied a question about points in a plane for nearly 80 years.
- The question asks how many pairs of points can be exactly distance 1 apart.
- This is a deceptively simple question.