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There aren't any, and the solution itself is uninteresting, but it's possible that techniques developed in the process of solving it will find application in solving other problems (In physics, chemistry, genetics, cryptography...)

Consider the most important function of calculus - the integral. In layman's terms, it measures the area under a graph. Okay - that's a little bit useful, if you care about the physics of moving objects (A bus is accelerating at 2 m/s^2 for 5 seconds, how far does it travel..?)

Yet, if you know how to integrate, a mountain of not-immediately obvious physics problems - say, anything that has to do with electromagnetism (Maxwell's equations) immediately become tractable.



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