the conjecture held for 85 years and the counterexample was announced in a format that expires after seven days
The surprising thing is that the counterexample seems relatively "simple" in that it's low degree, with coefficients that aren't too large.
Does anyone more familiar with this know why this _wasn't_ found earlier, when it seems like you could brute-force through some low-order polynomials?
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The surprising thing is that the counterexample seems relatively "simple" in that it's low degree, with coefficients that aren't too large.
Does anyone more familiar with this know why this _wasn't_ found earlier, when it seems like you could brute-force through some low-order polynomials?