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Hall's conjecture: a square extremely close to a cube
Find positive integers x, y with 0 < |y² − x³| < √x/100, beating the record ratio of about 46.6 in Hall's conjecture, unbroken since 1998.
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| 9 | "name": "FrontierMath: Open Problems", |
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| 12 | "curator": "Epoch AI", |
| 13 | "poser": "Marshall Hall Jr.", |
| 14 | "status": "unsolved", |
| 15 | "as_of": "2026-10-20", |
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