[Mmogamer]

What does this mean in english?

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Yeah, well, I exploded the proof the first day it came out. Guy forgot to carry the 5.

/obvious bunkum

[skr]

100 pages? Wouldn't 0≠1 do? Where's my million?

[JRios1968]

[ClearCase_guy]

*ahem* I suggest they look really carefully at page 37.

That's all I'm sayin'.

[HereInTheHeartland]

"prove P ≠ NP – otherwise known as the "P vs NP" problem – seems to be running into trouble. " They just need to change P to lower case; and it will balance.

[ThomasThomas]

Math U Philosophy = Bi polar dude.

I had a room mate just after college that was just about to finish a MS in math at Texas Tech. He disappeared one day. The finally called and said he checked himself into a mental hospital.

[SunkenCiv]

There's an important alternative to Clarke's Third Law -- any mathematical proof sufficiently complicated is indistinguishable from magic." ;')

...the latest attempt to prove P ≠ NP -- otherwise known as the "P vs NP" problem -- seems to be running into trouble... The problem concerns the speed at which a computer can accomplish a task such as factorising a number. Roughly speaking, P is the set of problems that can be computed quickly, while NP contains problems for which the answer can be checked quickly... It is generally suspected that P ≠ NP. If this is so, it would impose severe limits on what computers can accomplish.

[downwdims]

I don’t understand why this is so hard P requires one operation.

NP requires at least two

[apoliticalone]

As an engineer (not a scientist) I can’t help but feel more than a little sad every time I think of how the USA in 1984 literally threw away the pre-eminent institution of private basic research in the world....Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Had this institution and its corporate relationships and basic research been permitted to flourish as it had for decades, I have no doubt that this particular problem would have been solved years ago along with many others.

Candidly speaking I see a US government that has worked very hard and deliberative to destroy the once preeminent standing of the USA in research and manufacturing and exchange that capability so that a few crooks on Wall Street could make far too much money, and frankly I’m very ticked about it.

Today Bell Labs is just another typical corporate lab and it is owned by the French and Alcatel.

http://www.linfo.org/bell_labs.html

[TomasUSMC]

They need to ask P-Daddy.

[Hot Tabasco]

Neil Immerman of the University of Massachusetts, who claims to have found a "serious hole" in Deolalikar's paper.

What a rat! That's the last time I ever discuss Deolalikar's paper with Neil in Hooter's on a Friday night..........the punk's taking all the credit!