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OpenAI Cracks 80-Year-Old Math Problem

did:plc:kpkcscbf2zshv7shqgqn45wn May 21, 2026
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A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence. OpenAI says one of its AI models has solved the "unit distance problem," a classic question in combinatorial geometry first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdos in 1946, reports Interesting Engineering . Unlike...

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