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AI Solved Erdos’s 80-Year-Old Math problem

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The argument that "AI is just an autocomplete parrot that can never discover anything new" just took a massive hit. In 1946, Paul Erdos posed the unit distance conjecture, predicting a strict sub-polynomial bound on how many point pairs can sit exactly 1 unit apart in a 2D plane. For 80 years, huma…

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  1. 2026-10-09 17:30 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Solved Erdos’s 80-Year-Old Math problem

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