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To: mywholebodyisaweapon
The four color map problem has been proven where only four colors are needed to color a map so that no two touching regions are the same color. This is a more general problem in which no two points a given distance apart are the same color.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger–Nelson_problem

Also "The Hadwiger-Nelson problem" sounds like an episode title for The Big Bang Theory where Sheldon does something clueless and upsets everyone.

18 posted on 04/28/2018 6:48:21 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I can't tell if we live in an Erostocracy (rule by sex) or an Eristocracy (rule by strife and chaos))
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To: KarlInOhio

Thanks for the clarification. Glad to know that the four-color solution lives.

Sounds like a new SJ-planned society. Ugh.


22 posted on 04/28/2018 12:14:38 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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