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  Re: An Unholy Winning Streak  
From: Warp
Date: 11 Jun 2010 13:00:54
Message: <4c126bc5@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> If I sold my soul for the ability to solve the Halting Problem, would 
> that allow me to defy the usual laws of causality?

  You can't sell your soul to solve an unsolvable problem.

  However, if you sell it for the proof to the P=NP question and the
Riemann hypothesis, that would be something. (Or at least you would get
2 million dollars richer, and famous among the scientific community.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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