Re: Worst Hugos Ever?

On 2008-02-25, in rec.arts.sf.written, Gene Ward Smith wrote:
I think they should be forced to find, in their head, the
Galois group of a polynomial with integer coefficients of
degree sixteen.

Bah. That's for sissies. They should be forced to tell whether a
randomly generated Diophantine equation has any solutions.

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