paper-machine comments on The Crackpot Offer - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 24 August 2011 11:40:06AM 0 points [-]

Shortly after, I demonstrated to my own satisfaction that it was impossible and stopped.

If you really did prove the 4-colour theorem at age 10 then dreams of fame and glory would have been quite justified.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 26 August 2011 09:02:42PM 0 points [-]

I don't mean I proved it. I just meant that I worked at it long enough that I became pretty confident I wouldn't be able to do it. Edited my earlier post to make that clearer.

Comment author: benelliott 26 August 2011 09:53:54PM 0 points [-]

I understand that, I was being intentionally facetious.