Re:Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver
by 21 on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:24PM
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http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/shortest-known-paper-in-a...
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Re:Stepping into math: Open-sourcing our step-by-step solver
by yequalsx on Thursday January 19, 2017 @08:39PM
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The paper you cited supports what I've been saying. You can publish a paper that says, "Here is a counterexample." You can't publish a paper that says, "Here is a solution I guessed to be correct."
Any method of finding a counterexample is accepted. Guessing a solution is not.
EDIT: The paper linked to was published because it was a counterexample to a famous conjecture.