Open-source agent burns 100M tokens tackling open math problem, nears record in 52 hours

A developer's live experiment runs an open-source autonomous agent (Qwen 27B on an RTX 5090) against the covering design problem C(25,15,5), aiming to beat the known 42-set solution with 41 sets. After burning about 100 million tokens over 52 hours, the agent is closing in on the record.

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