The Rice Siam Chapter 50-digit Challenge
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Recently the Rice University SIAM student chapter has published five new 10-digit problems. The intention is that Rice students solve every problem to as many digits of precision as possible. Archetype for this idea was a similar competition1 which culminated in a beautiful book[1].
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تاریخ انتشار 2005