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Re:A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots (2018) by whoomp12342 on Monday January 24, 2022 @11:55AM (#30060292)
we are talking about math here, there are always applications even ones where we dont know in this day and age.

I am positive the same question could be been asked about basic calculus concepts in the 12th century.

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Re:A surprisingly hard CS problem: sums of square roots (2018) by umvi on Monday January 24, 2022 @12:10PM (#30060558)
Yeah, I get that, but I'm just saying if this is a problem needing solved to accomplish some visual effect in game programming (as a contrived example), that practically speaking it's not a hard problem. It's only a hard problem in a theoretical, general sense.
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