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Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal by xamuel on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:39PM (#15239968)
It's like if someone proved P=NP and the magazine title was: "Mathematicians Measure Difficulty Levels, Find They're Equal."
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Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal by SilasX on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:51PM (#15240738)
Clickbait refers to vague titles that also overhype the story. Your example, if anything, underhypes it.
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Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal by burkaman on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @01:03PM (#15240243)
That's not a good headline, but it's not clickbait. If P vs. NP were a fairly obscure problem with little immediate impact outside of academia, that would be a fine layperson headline.

What would you have titled this Quanta article?

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Re:Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal by l3k on Wednesday September 13, 2017 @12:54PM (#15240132)
Maybe I misread, but I feel like solving P=NP would be closer to solving the continuum hypothesis whereas the article describes solving a related problem which could have disproved the hypothesis should it have been found that the two sets were not equal.
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