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 ... ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of silky Sent: Wednesday, 11 August 2010 7:48 PM To: ozDotNet 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/ > ________________________________ > Ian Thomas > Victoria Park, Western Australia -- silky http://dnoondt.wordpress.com/ "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being this signature."
