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In 2025, a computer program solved super hard math problems from a famous contest so well that it earned a score as high as the best students in the whole world.
A math problem that takes many careful steps to work through, instead of a quick single calculation, is called a hard problem. In 2025, a computer program got so good at solving multi-step problems from a famous math contest that it scored as well as some of the very best student competitors in the world.
A 'puddle' and a 'pillow' are just everyday objects, not math words at all — they don't describe anything about how tricky or step-heavy a problem is.
Contest problems like these often take skilled humans hours of careful thinking, so a computer solving them well is a big deal, showing machines can now handle reasoning, not just quick number crunching.
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