{"id":5313,"date":"2013-02-07T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2013\/02\/07\/once-you-know-something-can-be-done-doing-it-is-much-easier\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T07:00:01","slug":"once-you-know-something-can-be-done-doing-it-is-much-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20130207-01\/?p=5313","title":{"rendered":"Once you know something can be done, doing it is much easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t remember the name of the star of this story, but I&#8217;m told that there was a notable mathematician who believed the <i>Perfect Graph Conjecture<\/i> to be false and spent many years trying to prove it one way or another.<\/p>\n<p> Meanwhile, another mathematician (presumably L&aacute;szl&oacute; Lov&aacute;sz) announced that he had found a proof (in the affirmative). <\/p>\n<p> Upon hearing the news that the open question had been resolved, the first mathematician was able to produce a proof within 90 minutes. <\/p>\n<p> Once again showing that it&#8217;s much easier to do something once you know it can be done. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t remember the name of the star of this story, but I&#8217;m told that there was a notable mathematician who believed the Perfect Graph Conjecture to be false and spent many years trying to prove it one way or another. Meanwhile, another mathematician (presumably L&aacute;szl&oacute; Lov&aacute;sz) announced that he had found a proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-5313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Unfortunately, I don&#8217;t remember the name of the star of this story, but I&#8217;m told that there was a notable mathematician who believed the Perfect Graph Conjecture to be false and spent many years trying to prove it one way or another. Meanwhile, another mathematician (presumably L&aacute;szl&oacute; Lov&aacute;sz) announced that he had found a proof [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}