[taeric]

Ok, so optimization problems are potentially bounded with smaller coefficients than we would think.

What about sequencing life? Supposedly we share a lot at the genomic level with animals we are vastly different from. Could a large degree of the polynomial that is life explain that divergence?

[dom0]

What?

[taeric]

Ha! I'm just trying to get a better feel for what is being said. Definitely the dumbest person in this particular conversation.

I am assuming you are pushing the same angle as the other poster. That is, most optimization problems are actually not "large constants" in the exponents. So, since most of what developers think of as "hard" are almost all classical NP problems, maybe it makes sense to look at other things we don't typically think of as computational.

Could just be nonsensical, though. I fully accept that.