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by lottin 1406 days ago
The fact that there isn't a closed-form solution doesn't make it a complex mathematical problem.

Guessing a number isn't a complex mathematical number, it's just guessing a number.

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afaik the solution that has to be "guessed" is not random. We just don't know how to get to it without brute force.
Brute-force solutions are still solutions :)