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Re:Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem by gowld on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @03:04PM (#18394440)
This almost certainly won't happen. First, because "P vs NP" is a very well-studied problem and many complex technical constraints have been proved about what kinds of things can and cannot be part of "P" algorithm for an NP-complete problem. There's no way to be educate enough to be able express something that could possibly be a well-formed proof (and not made meaningless by its vaguess) without knowing enough to navigate these concerns and therefore appreciating the magnitude of the problem.

Second, because the proof won't be useful outside of arcane theory. If P != NP, that verifies something everyone already asumes, so it wouldn't change much except for abstract curiosity of a few experts able to comprehend the complexity of the meaning.

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