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by throwawaymath 2691 days ago
> A great example is the 4Chan user that solved the 25 year old permutation math problem by looking at it from a different lense.

To be precise, the anonymous user did not solve the problem. They lowered the bound on the set of possible solutions.

EDIT: I realized this isn't sufficiently precise either...the user increased the lower bound of the set of solutions. What I originally said could be interpreted as the upper bound being decreased. That's not the case.