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AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
DecryptSaturday, September 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required
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- Impact
- High
- Category
- Crypto
- Market relevance
- High
- Why it matters
- Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk. Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required Watch liquidity and volatility around Just Solved and Old Math Problem — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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What happened
Anthropic says Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself, no human trust required
Why it matters
Crypto moves are a live stress test of liquidity, regulation, and narrative risk.
Background
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Timeline
Decrypt published: AI Just Solved a 350-Year-Old Math Problem By Writing the Longest Proof Ever
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Economic impact
Watch liquidity and volatility around Just Solved and Old Math Problem — crypto markets reprice narrative risk quickly.
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