The sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers · HackerPapers discussions

The sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers — mentioned by mswphd

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:46:46 GMT

Looking at LLMs applications to math might be instructive. A year ago when they had some preliminary claims/results, people would hypothesize they had the answer implicit in their training data (and so were being "better search", but fundamentally doing derivative work). This may have been substantiated sometimes, I forget. Recently the tune has changed somewhat, say with LLM's approaches to Erdos problems (and in particular the unit distance problem. The LLM solution here spurred progress on another large problem, namely https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.28781 ). There have been no claims that the…

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The sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers — HN submission

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 07:15:25 GMT

The Sum-Product conjecture is false for real numbers

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The sum-product conjecture is false for real numbers — HN submission

Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:44 GMT

Humans have disproved the sum-product conjectures for real numbers

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