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4 Sep 2024 03:20:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: P != NP ?  
From: Invisible
Date: 12 Oct 2010 11:51:32
Message: <4cb48404@news.povray.org>
>> I'm sure you've already heard about this if you've been anywhere near
>> the internet today, but there's apparently a new claim at a proof of
>> P!=NP which at least looks pretty worth taking seriously:
>
>> http://www.win.tue.nl/~gwoegi/P-versus-NP/Deolalikar.pdf
>
>    If the proof results to be correct, I think a *lot* of people out there
> are going to sigh in relief (because an enormous amount of math and
> practical computer code out there rely on the assumption that P != NP).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem#Claimed_solutions

...so I guess not then. :-(


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