645175 external_news 1615326745 1615326745 Grade school math students are likely familiar with teachers admonishing them not to just guess the answer to a problem. But a new proof establishes that, in fact, the right kind of guessing is sometimes the best way to solve systems of linear equations, one of the bedrock calculations in math. One of the researchers who came up with the new method is Santosh Vempala, an adjunct professor in the School of Mathematics. 

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