alt Hacker NewsThey haven't, not at all as far as I can tell. This math problem appears to be a nice chore to be solved, the equivalent to "Claude, optimize this code" or "Write a parser", which is being done 100000x a day.
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calf • today at 7:49 AM
But the title claims it is a "frontier" math problem, so which is it really.
The original researchers who proposed this problem tried and failed multiple times to solve it. Does that sound like a 'nice chore to be solved' to you ?