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| On 29 January 2030, a series of major mathematical breakthroughs were announced within hours of one another, resolving several of the longest-standing open problems in mathematics.
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| The events began at approximately 08:00–09:00 UTC, when a multinational research collaboration spanning twelve universities in seven countries announced the discovery and verification of the first known {{W|odd perfect number}}, designated <math>N</math>, with an approximate value of <math>N=1.1274354961045…×10^{1,353,382}</math>. The discovery established for the first time that odd perfect numbers exist, resolving a problem whose origins date to antiquity.
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| At 12:24 UTC, an independent collaboration involving fourteen universities announced the discovery of the first 'elite number', the term used by the project for an even integer greater than 2 that cannot be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers and therefore constitutes a counterexample to the {{W|Goldbach conjecture}}. The number, designated <math>G</math>, was approximately <math>G=2.368259249829…×10^{136,248,339,111}</math>. The discovery resulted from a reformulation of the collaboration's original research programme. Rather than attempting to establish the Goldbach conjecture universally, the project had increasingly treated its negation as a direct search problem, asking whether any elite numbers existed. The identification and subsequent verification of <math>G</math> disproved the conjecture.
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