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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
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- Subject: Re: Cryptography and P=NP
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:15:17 GMT
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- In article <Nov.16.03.59.05.1992.2368@remus.rutgers.edu> clong@remus.rutgers.edu (Chris Long) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov15.110945.19939@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>, Daniel Jimenez writes:
- >
- >>> This proves that P=NP and all NP-complete and all other NP problems thus
- >>> have polynomial time algorithms.
- >
- >Anyone who believes P=NP is an idiot.
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- Like Bela Bollobas, then. Right. This sort of idiocy I could live with.
- On what basis do you make this assertion?
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- (Incidentally, I guess P!=NP, but without knowing enough about complexity
- theory to make assertions like the above one.)
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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