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4 Sep 2024 07:18:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: An Unholy Winning Streak  
From: Warp
Date: 11 Jun 2010 14:37:58
Message: <4c128285@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >   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.)

> Unfortunately, we're dealing with the Devil here. He'd probably agree to 
> buy my soul in return for the proof of P=NP, and then it turns out that 
> actually P /= NP so I get nothing (but He still gets my soul...)

  Of course you have to negotiate. When the scientific community accepts
the proofs, then the soul ownership is transferred, not before.

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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