assuming 100,000 human hours spent thinking about this problem (napkin)

assuming 100,000 human hours spent thinking about this problem (napkin) worldwide weighted average of $20/hr for maths research, that $2,000,000 the cost of frontier maths research just fell at least 2,000-fold.
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