>I would expect a positive answer to P = NP to be completely useless in practice. A negative answer would similarly be rather unexiting by itself. What would be

>I would expect a positive answer to P = NP to be completely useless in practice. A negative answer would similarly be rather unexiting by itself. What would be exiting are the tools for getting this answer... That's basically Donald Knuth's position. http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858 http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858