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- From: chalmers@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (David Chalmers)
- Subject: Re: Cryptography and P=NP
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:00:10 GMT
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- These odds just in from Ladbrokes' of London.
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- P = NP: 5 - 1
- P !=NP: 1 - 8 ON
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- Fermat's conjecture TRUE: 1 - 30 ON
- Fermat's conjecture FALSE: 12 - 1
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- Riemann hypothesis TRUE: 1 - 12 ON
- Riemann hypothesis FALSE: 7 - 1
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- Goldbach's conjecture TRUE: NO BETS
- Goldbach's conjecture FALSE: 1000 - 1
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- Continuum hypothesis TRUE: 4 - 1
- Continuum hypothesis FALSE: 3 - 2
- CH neither TRUE nor FALSE: 5 - 2
- Neither TRUE nor FALSE that CH either TRUE or FALSE: 8 - 1
- Other: 20 - 1
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- To place bets, call Ladbrokes at 011-44-71-670-0417. Results to be
- determined by God's pronouncement on Dec. 31, 1999, if not settled
- by human hand before then.
-
- --
- Dave Chalmers (dave@cogsci.indiana.edu)
- Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition, Indiana University.
- "It is not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."
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