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Originally posted by arael
well, if pc's weren't so popular it wouldn't have happened. just like many great discoveries, it sometimes happens by accident. Just because it's accidental or technology driven does not make it less signaficant
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In a way it does. Using a computer to solve a problem by an exhaustive search is donkey work. They could at least have tried some sort of heuristic search. The best solutions of these sort of problems are when someone comes up with an elegant formal proof, because if it's something that hasn't been solved for ages, it's more likely to require the development of some new mathematical technique. New techniques can have a far broader-ranging impact than just solving the puzzle itself, thus making such proofs far more significant.
Interesting to see anyways.
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