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Specifically, OpenAI said in an announcement published on its website that its models disproved a central conjecture in an area of discrete geometry tied to Paul Erdős’s planar unit distance problem, a famously stubborn question first posed in 1946.—Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 The carousel also includes both a prism and grism (a planar prism) that will allow the telescope to do spectroscopy, giving us a picture of what wavelengths of light are arriving from certain sources or how severely redshifted the light of distant objects has become.—John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 23 Apr. 2026 Vibration types Most vibration platform machines use either tri-planar or oscillating vibration.—Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026 The planar glass and polished aluminum materials give the piece a more industrial feeling—a sensation juxtaposed by the LED strip within, which emits a soft, warm glow.—Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for planar