Wednesday, August 11, 2010

P ≠ NP? It's bad news for the power of computing - physics-math - 10 August 2010 - New Scientist

P ≠ NP? It's bad news for the power of computing - physics-math - 10 August 2010 - New Scientist: "But Deolalikar says that's not the way it is. His argument revolves around a particular task, the Boolean satisfiability problem, which asks whether a collection of logical statements can all be simultaneously true or whether they contradict each other. This is known to be an NP problem.

Deolalikar claims to have shown that there is no program which can complete it quickly from scratch, and that it is therefore not a P problem. His argument involves the ingenious use of statistical physics, as he uses a mathematical structure that follows many of the same rules as a random physical system."

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