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I wonder if P = NP would end up being proven by someone who didn't want to be sent back after 23 hours of traveling.
by belltaco 10y ago
I wonder if P = NP would end up being proven by someone who didn't want to be sent back after 23 hours of traveling.
- tajen 10y agoI hope not, or the TSA will show off how The Question is useful for the nation's science.
- thr0waway1239 10y agoNo no no! Why did you have to do that? Don't you know they scan HN for easy to memorize one-liner questions to add to their question bank? Now those who enter the US are really doomed! :-)
- dwringer 10y agoI can see it now. In 100 years we will learn about how a TSA clerk who had failed mathematics back in grade school went on to prove P = NP and become synonymous with "genius" for generations.
- samirm 10y agoI think he meant by a traveler who is stopped by a TSA agent.
- advisedwang 10y agoSure, but they gave the TSA Agent a copy of their proof...