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- From: clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long)
- Newsgroups: comp.theory,sci.math,sci.crypt
- Subject: Re: Cryptography and P=NP
- Message-ID: <Nov.16.16.59.47.1992.6436@remus.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 21:59:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.110945.19939@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> <15115@ember.UUCP>
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- Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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- In article <15115@ember.UUCP>, Paul Colley writes:
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- > If he means that anyone who believes P MIGHT be equal to NP is "an
- > idiot", then I think Chris should retract his statement.
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- Nope.
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- > The problem is open.
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- Sure, but P=NP and P<>NP are certainly not equally likely. The a priori
- evidence that P<>NP is *overwhelming*; to claim that P=NP has a chance
- of being true is worse than claiming that there is a chance of only a
- finite number of twin primes existing. Both are unproven, but there are
- *very* strong reasons for believing them to be true. So strong that
- anyone who believes otherwise must be either ignorant or a crackpot.
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- Chris Long, 265 Old York Rd., Bridgewater, NJ 08807-2618
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