Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Possible Issues With the P != NP Proof

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday August 11, @02:02AM
from the intuitively-obvious-to-the-most-casual-observer dept.
An anonymous reader writes"We previously discussed news that Vinay Deolalikar, a Principal Research Scientist at HP Labs, wrote a paper that claimed to prove P is not equal to NP. Dick Lipton, a Professor of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, analyzed the idea of the proof on his blog. In a recent post, he explains that there have been many serious objections raised about the proof. The post summarizes the issues that need to be answered in any subsequent development, and additional concerns are raised in the comment section."

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