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I bet he didn't even crack the top ten.

• boulos 6y ago
  Not that it matters, but #6: https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/putnam1999results.html https://kskedlaya.org/putnam-archive/putnam1999results.html
  • schoen 6y ago
    This whole rhetorical question/joke was a reference to "the comeback of all time" (also involving Colin Percival): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
  • cperciva 6y ago
    #6 alphabetically, yes. They don't announce the ranks of the top 6 because they want to just say that all the Putnam Fellows won without drawing distinctions between them.
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