{"id":84650,"date":"2018-11-11T04:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-11-11T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem"},"modified":"2018-11-11T04:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-11T12:42:22","slug":"sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Writer Greg Egan and Anonymous Math Whiz Advance Permutation Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sci-fi-writer-greg-egan-and-anonymous-math-whiz-advance-permutation-problem.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series\u2019 episodes, in every possible order, lies at the heart of this mathematical breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-helped-solve-a-25-year-old-math-puzzle\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/how-an-anonymous-4chan-post-help...th-puzzle\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series\u2019 episodes, in every possible order, lies at the heart of this mathematical breakthrough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}