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		downrightmike on July 7, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Talent Search versus Talent Development (2019) [pd... Every now and again, a tardy student writes down an impossible to solve problem and solves it because he thought it was just homework.

historyforsale on July 8, 2024 [–]

> Every now and again

As far as I can tell, this has only happened once, in 1939 [1].

[1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-unsolvable-math-proble...

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