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1 month ago

The Kakeya Conjecture, a Decades-Old Math Problem, Is Solved in Three Dimensions

Mathematicians have proven the Kakeya conjecture's three-dimensional version, marking a significant achievement in mathematics after over a century of investigation.
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2 months ago

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture

Krapivin's new exploration led to a novel hash table that dispenses with uniform probing, achieving worst-case query times of (log x)^2, faster than Yao's conjectured x.
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