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Comment by psychoslave

18 hours ago

Put in the hands of great mathematicians, pencil and paper proved able to write proofs of open problems.

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red75prime  11 hours ago

Yeah. Great mathematicians were able to upgrade a "yan, tan, tethera" number system using pen and paper (or stylus and clay).

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