alt Hacker NewsI'm going to push back on “the value was already known”; my understanding is that the candidate value was known, but while there was a single machine with behaviour that was not yet characterized, it quite easily could have been the real champion.
I'm going to push back on “the value was already known”; my understanding is that the candidate value was known, but while there was a single machine with behaviour that was not yet characterized, it quite easily could have been the real champion.
Ah yeah, I stand corrected. I didn't realize this is a paper by the original team that found the number a while back, I thought it's an independent formalization in 2025.