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A high school math teacher posed a historically impossible-to-answer question to her students. St. Mary’s Michelle Blouin Williams says she didn’t expect anyone to solve it, but two students made history when they did.

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Anthony Mongeluzo2 years ago

Wasn’t this solved 15 years ago?

Jameson Daniels🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺🌎🕊️2 years ago

Outstanding work. 📐

Anonnie1112 years ago

Those young ladies kicked some bootay. Congrats to them (and their teachers)!

2x State Champ Coach Woo2 years ago

Good Job Ladies💯

Bert Gilfoyle 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🔋2 years ago

Highly improbable, just amazing!

The New Majority2 years ago

Huh ? We had students solve this years ago and nobody ran to the media.

Rick Saunders2 years ago

Coming up with a new proof is work well done and deserving of congratulations. 60 Minutes calling this a "historically impossible to prove problem", OTOH, very lame. Ptolemy, Nasr Mansur, Bhaskara, Guo Shoujing, and Euler all provided Trigonometric proofs.

NOREEN 💦 WATCH 😇 ME2 years ago

煉🙉

Nate Petersen2 years ago

@richardjustice Between this and the story on KKR- ultimate fuel for eternal optimists

ANCHOVY2 years ago

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