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Re:Researchers chip away at Smale's 7th unsolved problem in ... by jbpetersen on Saturday July 16, 2016 @11:47PM (#12108940)
Reminds me of reading about at least one case where a problem was solved in a situation like that. Anyone recall what it was?
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Re:Researchers chip away at Smale's 7th unsolved problem in ... by jordigh on Sunday July 17, 2016 @12:08AM (#12108990)
Dantzig solved an open problem in statistics which he thought was being causally assigned as homework:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig#Mathematical_st...

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Re:Researchers chip away at Smale's 7th unsolved problem in ... by jbn on Sunday July 17, 2016 @12:28PM (#12110672)
I think you mean "casually", not "causally" (even though it's kind the interesting Freudian slip, IMHO).
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