I think the problem with many amateurs is not that they don't have good ideas but that they don't know how to read the surrounding literature.

They either tend to reinvent the wheel or even worse try to invent things which are proven not to exist.

I know about professors which get letters with "revolutionary" solutions for popular problems every week.

The spamming has an extent that some revolutionary things were only published in unknown publications and had to be discovered there.

Btw I still consider me an amateur here, if I was seriously interested to solve it I'd spend a weekly only searching publications.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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In reply to Re^7: Multiplication digit persistence by LanX
in thread Multiplication digit persistence by tobyink

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