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Pin down the constant γ in the expected longest common subsequence γn of two random binary strings, rigorously between 0.79266 and 0.82628.
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Decide whether 6 or 7 colours are needed to colour the plane so that points at distance 1 always get different colours.
Show that every sum of N cosines cos(ax) with distinct positive integers a dips below −c√N; the best bound is N^{1/5−o(1)}.
Show that every synchronizing automaton with n states has a reset word of length at most (n − 1)².
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Show that an open subset of the unit square with area α contains the corners of an axis-parallel rectangle of area at least cα².
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Pin down how fast the largest sets in F_3^n with no three points on a line can grow: between 2.2203^n and 2.756^n.
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Show that a subgraph of the n-cube with no 4-cycle has at most about half of the cube's edges; the best bound is 0.60318.
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Prove that n! + 1 is a perfect square only for n = 4, 5 and 7, or find a fourth solution.
Decide whether every bipartite graph G has ex(n;G) ~ c·n^α for some α in [1,2), and whether α must be rational.
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Narrow the constant β in the length β√n of the shortest tour through n random points, rigorously between 0.6277 and 0.8810.
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Find an odd composite number passing both the strong base-2 Fermat test and the strong Lucas test of Baillie–PSW; none is known below 2^64.
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Show that an automorphism of a finite group inverts at most as many elements as the sum of the irreducible character degrees.
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Better configurations for Heilbronn’s triangle problem in the unit square, n = 11–14