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    Honeycomb Conjecture

    Statement

    The honeycomb conjecture, now proved, posited that a partition of the plane into regions of equal area has perimeter at least that of the regular hexagonal grid.

    History

    formulation date | 340 AD (1685 years ago)
formulator | Pappus
status | proved
proof date | 1999 (1659 years later) (26 years ago)
prover | Thomas Callister Hales

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