After Nearly a Century, a New Limit for Patterns in Graphs | Quanta Magazine
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Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property describing unavoidable structure in graphs.
  • Codex@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I love this news, and it is very exciting!

    But it’s also objectively funny that when you get down to the heart of the story, the huge result is that they got R(k) < 4^k down to R(k) < 3.993^k