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Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro by eru on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:04AM (#46665461)
> This is a relief, honestly. A prior solution exists now, which means the model didn’t solve anything at all. It just regurgitated it from the internet, which we can retroactively assume contained the solution in spirit, if not in any searchable or known form. Mystery resolved.

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> Interesting that in Terrance Tao's words: "though the new proof is still rather different from the literature proof)"

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