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  "abstract": "FINDING: The Putnam competition corpus contains no unsolved problems — all 12 problems per year are solvable in-contest; the \"hardest\" ones (e.g., Putnam 2016 B6) are celebrated for elegant, non-obvious solutions, not open questions. The search results conflate \"difficult\" with \"unsolved,\" a category error. | MATH: No new equations, constants, or ratios emerge from the listed sources. Putnam B6 2016 involves combinatorial geometry (typically a lattice-point or convex-hull argument), but the specific solution is not given in the snippets. The arxiv paper on a \"Putnam Physics Competition\" proposes an exam format, not a mathematical result. | CONNECTION: None found. No occurrence of 0.382, 0.618, 0.786, 1.618, 2.618, base-60, crystallographic symmetry, root systems, or lattice structures in the provided text. The only implicit structure is the Putnam's own scoring (0–10 per problem), which is decimal, not base-60. | DEPTH: 1 — The finding is a misclassification of competition difficulty a\n\nAuthor: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher, UK. Part of the E8 Intelligence Research series. Platform: e8intelligence.com",
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