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by einpoklum 2373 days ago
> will this help up us to invent such algorithms?

In addition to the obvious polynomial reduction between NP problems - which is usually not very practical - it is quite possible that this will help.

> I don't see how

“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.” -1 Corinthians 13:11,12

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Don't respond to a question with a vague quote, if you want to talk about putting away childish things.

If anything, it implies you don't actually know the answer either.

The point of the quote is to say that they don't know the answer either. So, yes.

Think of it as: we are all children when it comes to the ramifications of the proof of P vs NP. We do not know the impact; we cannot know the impact. We will know it when it arrives.