Vishnu Kannan had just begun learning math as an early elementary school student in Howard County when his older brother came to him with a math problem. If he could solve it, he’d earn a dozen ...
Enumerates all (k, L) pairs where k = odd steps and L = even steps in a candidate cycle. Shows that any cycle in [2, 10^12] would require k >= 26 odd steps. Combined with Simons & de Weger (2005): no ...