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Re:Topological Naming Problem by amelius on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @05:58PM (#47159258)
Sounds like it is maybe an ill-defined problem. So step 1 should be to describe non-ambiguously what should be solved here.
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Re:Topological Naming Problem by throwup238 on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @06:22PM (#47159490)
Step 1: Solve the entire mathematical field of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology

This isn’t just basic CRUD software that just needs some Postgres constraints to model trivial business logic. These are genuinely hard problems that mathematicians have been working on for decades.

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Re:Topological Naming Problem by aleph_minus_one on Thursday February 26, 2026 @11:36AM (#47168366)
> Step 1: Solve the entire mathematical field of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology

There exists an insane amount of questions in topology that have (by our current understanding) nothing to do with CAD or even computational geometry.

> These are genuinely hard problems that mathematicians have been working on for decades.

The hard problems that mathematicians in topology work on are nearly always very different from what you think modern topology is about.

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