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http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/shortest-known-paper-in-a-serious-math-journal.html http://www.openculture.com/2015/04/shortest-known-paper-in-a...

• yequalsx 10y ago
  The paper you cited supports what I've been saying. You can publish a paper that says, "Here is a counterexample." You can't publish a paper that says, "Here is a solution I guessed to be correct." Any method of finding a counterexample is accepted. Guessing a solution is not. EDIT: The paper linked to was published because it was a counterexample to a famous conjecture.
  • 21 10y ago
    So you're saying that if they left out the "search on CDC" line the paper would not have been accepted.
    • yequalsx 10y ago
      No. I'm saying it would not have been published if it wasn't a counterexample.