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    3 days ago

    Is this number the exact result or a lower bound ?

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      3 days ago

      Lower. It caught their attention because a science fiction author had come up with upper bound, which the article notes was also bizarre.

      Houston had just learned that Australian science fiction author Greg Egan had found a new maximum length for the shortest superpermutations