Tamara Giorgadze, a ninth grade student at McLean High School (in Virginia)
has obtained some NEW lower bounds on some VDW numbers:
See
this website
This is excellent work!
I was not her mentor, Hunter Monroe was.
(He has done some work in Complexity on whether there are
natural problems with
speedup, though his day job is as an Economist.)
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