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Claude's Cycles — Opus 4.6 Solves Knuth Conjecture

March 3, 2026Posted by Federico Ulfo

Legendary mathematician Donald Knuth reveals Opus 4.6 solved his long-standing conjecture:

claude opus 4.6 cracked my long-standing hamiltonian-cycle conjecture for all odd sizes — an open problem from my art of computer programming drafts, and it's "a joy" to see it solved

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Sources: Paper, Tweet