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How many colors are needed to color the plane so that no two points exactly 1 unit apart ever have the same color? Behind this apparently elementary question lies a problem that remains unsolved.
For plane coloring, we already knew that four colors were enough to color any map so that no two neighboring countries ever had the same color.
