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Re:Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover by throwawaymath on Saturday November 17, 2018 @09:40AM (#18475681)
The title was litigated when this was posted just a few days ago. "Amateur" does not mean untrained. It means non-professional.
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Re:Amateur Mathematician Finds Smallest Universal Cover by LudwigNagasena on Saturday November 17, 2018 @10:38AM (#18475903)
Amateur has obvious connotations of the lack of formal training. I agree that the title is not wrong, but it is misleading.
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