If you read https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cyc... it was more of a

If you read https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cyc... it was more of a guided effort to write a program to find examples that helped with moving the proof along