Thirty years is a long time to live without a paycheck. If you retire at 62 and celebrate your 92nd birthday, your portfolio needs to fund groceries, property taxes, insurance premiums, and the ...

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Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

A former employer sends a one-page letter offering two choices: accept a $90,000 lump-sum payment today or continue receiving $720 per month for life. You are 67, single, retired from a manufacturing ...

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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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OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...