The math problem that Matt Damon's character solves in Good Will Hunting -- the problem that, supposedly, took a team of MIT professors two years to figure out -- is a simple tree puzzle that can be solved in minutes with a bit of trial and error and about 30 seconds' worth of graph theory.
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I hate it when they do that in movies. :(
Me too, but at the same time, a slavish dedication to realism doesn't always make for ideal art. It looked good in the movie, from what I recall.
I definitely read slavish first as Slavic. You're right, it did look good. Intensely math-ish.
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