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25 Post author: lukeprog 03 April 2012 09:45PM

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Comment author: see 03 April 2012 09:55:58PM 17 points [-]

Well, sure. If the problem is important enough to be worth a prize, it will have already attracted the attention of the people in the field. The problems that are left after the people in the field have tried to solve it are almost by definition the ones that require an outsider's perspective.