Team Cracks Century-Old Math Puzzle

Team Cracks Century-Old Math Puzzle

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PALO ALTO, Calif. Mar 21, 2007 (AP)— An international team of mathematicians says it has cracked a 120-year-old puzzle that researchers say is so complicated that its handwritten solution would cover the island of Manhattan.

The 18-member group of mathematicians and computer scientists was convened by the American Institute of Mathematics in Palo Alto to map a theoretical object known as the "Lie group E8."

When stored in highly compressed form on a computer hard drive, the solution takes up as much space as 45 days of continuous music in MP3 format.

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I wonder who came up with such a hard question?

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