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Mathematicians puzzled over a famous problem for 80 years. Now, they've used AI to identify a clever solution

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you ...

AI solves 80-year-old math problem that stumped experts for decades

OpenAI's AI model solved the famous unit distance problem, a question that had challenged mathematicians since 1946 ...