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(a) part of the joke

(b) the Millennium problems are not the only million-dollar prizes in mathematics

(c) part of the joke

(d) part of the joke (and part of the C++ standard)

(b) There are other prizes, but I'm not aware of any others worth a million dollars. Do you have any pointers? A quick interwebs search didn't turn up anything, but they might just be being swamped by the results with the Millennium Problems.

> A quick interwebs search didn't turn up anything [...]

Searching 'collatz conjecture prize' quite literally puts a prize of a bout 120MM Yen (~ $1MM) as the top result.

Hah! I didn't search specifically for that, I was searching for bounties in general.

Thanks.

There is also a Beal Conjecture[0] worth a million

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beal_conjecture

My initial search for bounties didn't turn up that one, either. I wonder if my connection(s) with Erdos have polluted my search history, so it was showing me mostly those, and not showing me this.

<shrug>

Thanks for finding this and letting me know, I've learned something.

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