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by nrhrjrjrjtntbt 188 days ago
P=NP feels like too much of a free lunch. Yeah thats unscientific but a hunch.
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It needn’t be a “free lunch” at all. An O(n^1000) algorithm for an NP-complete problem would constructively prove that P=NP yet be completely useless for solving any NP problems in practice