Exciting is definitely the word I would use. 
What's dull and pedestrian about destroying a great proportion of PhD theses
and academic papers? If the proof is correct ...  
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Ian Thomas
Victoria Park, Western Australia


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Subject: Re: maybe the greatest day in computer science, proof that p != np?

On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Aside from the proof itself, 'exciting' would be P=NP rather than P!=NP.

"Exciting" isn't really the word I would chose to describe that result.

Dick Lipton (same blog) explains it well here:
http://rjlipton.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/insider-baseball-and-pnp/


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> Victoria Park, Western Australia

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