Equation 1 · Part 2 · FunSearch Found New Mathematics Without Ever Understanding the Problem
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What this part means
A raised number can be a power. When it is a label or bound, it selects a case or the upper limit of a sum; the formula’s structure distinguishes these uses.
Its job in the formula
A raised mark can be a power or an index. Its position and the surrounding notation determine which.
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The passage around this formula
A cap set is a subset of the grid \{0,1,2\}^n with one rule: no three distinct points in it are allowed to sum to zero coordinate-wise modulo three. The largest such set in eight dimensions had been 496 points since 1994. In December 2023, a Google DeepMind system called FunSearch reported one with 512 [ 1 ] . DeepMind’s own announcement called it the largest jump in cap set sizes in twenty years [ 3 ] . Both of those claims check out — this article verified the 512-point construction and the ablation data behind it directly against the paper’s own supplementary material, not against the press release alone [ 2 ] . The question this article asks is not whether FunSearch found something real.…
Learn the underlying idea
An exponent tells how a base is used in multiplication. In x³, x is the base and 3 is the exponent: x³ = x × x × x.
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [1] Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models ↗
- [3] FunSearch: Making New Discoveries in Mathematical Sciences Using Large Language Models ↗
- [2] Mathematical discoveries from program search with large language models: Supplementary Information ↗
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