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17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize

Posted by samzenpus on from the boy-genius dept.

autospa writes "A California teenager who cracked a complex mathematical equation has been awarded the Intel Science Talent Search's $100,000 first-place prize. Evan O'Dorney, 17, won the prize for 'his mathematical project in which he compared two ways to estimate the square root of an integer. [He] discovered precisely when the faster way would work,' Intel announced Wednesday."

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  1. That must have been _hard_! by DriedClexler · · Score: -1, Troll

    Wow, he set two computation time expressions equal to each other and solved for the problem size! That is *so* difficult and deserving of a $100k prize!

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  2. charity? by MichaelKristopeit500 · · Score: -1, Troll
    should slashdot let everyone know when AMD donates a few thousand dollars to the national science foundation?

    the project is not significant.

    1. Re:charity? by MichaelKristopeit500 · · Score: -1, Troll
      the truth = troll.

      slashdot = stagnated

    2. Re:charity? by MichaelKristopeit410 · · Score: -1, Troll
      you're an idiot.

      cower in my shadow behind your chosen spent energy based pseudonym some more, feeb.

      you're completely pathetic.

    3. Re:charity? by MichaelKristopeit413 · · Score: -1, Troll
      ur mum's face don't even know why you lost.

      you're an idiot.

      cower in my shadow behind your spent energy based pseudonym some more, feeb.

      you're completely pathetic.

  3. Re:Breaking Stereotypes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    (insert obligatory XKCD here)

    http://xkcdsucks.blogspot.com/

  4. Re:A more reliable source perhaps? by royallthefourth · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps he could have a rewarding career in engineering, advancing the future by inventing new ways to kill third worlders

  5. Re:Oi by gstoddart · · Score: -1, Troll

    LOL. Do you have a tiny penis?

    Boo hoo, scathing comments from an AC. I shall now go weep in solitude and ponder how my life has gone horribly awry.

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