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		Solving simple International Mathematical Olympiad problems (elrinconde-ex.blogspot.com)
		7 points by zkz on July 12, 2009 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

embeddedradical on July 12, 2009 [–]

:( author brute forced them instead of showing some cool math tricks.

jacobolus on July 12, 2009 | [–]

Indeed. I don’t see how this is interesting. Computers are able to do many “dumb” computations faster than a human can figure out a clever solution: amazing!

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