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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by paulpauper on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @07:55AM (#9538229)
nowadays students will just google it and see that is unsolved
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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by kbart on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:05AM (#9538551)
It's still hard if you don't know/recognize the name of a problem and mathematical form is usually easy to disguise.
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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by Houshalter on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @02:56PM (#9541179)
This is what https://oeis.org/ is for.
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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by noja on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:19AM (#9538346)
Can you Google an equation?
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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by chadzawistowski on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @03:30PM (#9541378)
Try using this! http://saskatoon.cs.rit.edu/min/

Instructions at http://saskatoon.cs.rit.edu/min_instructions/

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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by darkxanthos on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @08:24AM (#9538376)
You can to a degree. I've done it a bunch for my math classes. :)

EDIT: Also wolfram alpha

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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by noja on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @10:45AM (#9539286)
So how does it look? Lots of parentheses? Are the special characters replaced with something?
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Re:Famous Unsolved Math Problems as Homework by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @12:58PM (#9540296)
Write it in TeX, then search for that.
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