In the past six months, Zhao Yi's activities had made a significant impact, particularly with the Rubik's cube calculator, the Effective and Irrelevant Carry Filtering method and his solution of the Collatz Conjecture.
The Rubik's cube calculator had considerable influence, but to the average person, it was just another calculator software.
That seemed pretty normal.
The computer industry was rapidly developing, and all sorts of software were emerging constantly. One more software for solving Rubik's cube wasn't particularly noteworthy.
The impact of the Effective and Irrelevant Carry Filtering method was mainly felt in academic circles. Most ordinary people didn't care about it. Lots of scholars published papers all the time. Even if it had influence in academia, it was still considered 'niche' on media platforms and the internet.
However, the Collatz Conjecture was different.