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Re:Infinite Force? Forty-year-old Fortran to the rescue by blablabla123 on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @05:48AM (#10702950)
One guy is called Xia and he proofed it 1994. (For only 4 objects using a non-constructional proof)

Here is a reference for an earlier proof with 5 objects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem#cite_note-34

Update: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body_problem#Singularities_o...

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Re:Infinite Force? Forty-year-old Fortran to the rescue by musgravepeter on Thursday December 10, 2015 @02:17PM (#10712704)
Thanks! There is also a discussion in The Million Body Problem (Heggie & Hut). Looking forward to poking around in this.
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Re:Infinite Force? Forty-year-old Fortran to the rescue by blablabla123 on Monday December 14, 2015 @08:24AM (#10730836)
No problem! Wow, this sounds fancy, gotta read this!
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