Gates is smarter than most people you'll ever meet. As a freshman, he proved tighter upper and lower bounds on the pancake sorting problem than had previously e

Gates is smarter than most people you'll ever meet. As a freshman, he proved tighter upper and lower bounds on the pancake sorting problem than had previously existed. Yes, his professor told him in class that X was the tightest bounds currently in existence. He came back a few days later and said "I'm pretty sure I have faster." He was right.