Levent Alpöge may have just dropped a solution to the smallest open Hadamard case (668) as an obfuscated shell script
Summary
Levent Alpöge has apparently used Claude to construct a 668x668 Hadamard matrix via an obfuscated shell script, potentially resolving the smallest open Hadamard case and all 12 unresolved orders below 2000, pending verification.
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