An artificial intelligence (AI) model has solved an 80-year-old math problem in a feat hailed as a major milestone for AI's mathematical ability.
The planar unit distance problem, first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős in 1946, asks a seemingly simple question: What is the maximum number of pairs of points that can exist one unit apart on a two-dimensional plane? Erdős claimed this number would rise slightly faster than the number of dots.
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