It can be very easy to come up with answers. The hard part is often verifying.
Example 1: Fermats Last Therom. One man spent a short time to state the answer, hundreds spent decades to verify it.
Example 2: Solve for x:
Problem: floor(37/4.657 + 3^9) = x.
Proposed solution (this took me 4 seconds to write down) X = 1,456,299
It will probably take you longer than 4 seconds to verify or disprove my solution.
It can be very easy to come up with answers. The hard part is often verifying. Example 1: Fermats Last Therom. One man spent a short time to state the answer, hundreds spent decades to verify it. Example 2: Solve for x: Problem: floor(37/4.657 + 3^9) = x. Proposed solution (this took me 4 seconds to write down) X = 1,456,299 It will probably take you longer than 4 seconds to verify or disprove my solution.