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> it’s only a matter of time until we have drastically better solutions than Y=1000000 Why? I'm likely missing something (and I'd love to know what!) but it s
by dllthomas 5y ago
> it’s only a matter of time until we have drastically better solutions than Y=1000000
Why? I'm likely missing something (and I'd love to know what!) but it seems plenty possible that some group of problems have a lower bound that's polynomial and still big.
- throwaway81523 5y ago> it seems plenty possible that some group of problems have a lower bound that's polynomial and still big. Yes, that is a definite fact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_hierarchy_theorem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_hierarchy_theorem 10000000 isn't that big a number anyway. We may be up against horrendous numbers that are so large that there is no concise way to write them down, even with recursive formulas such as Ackermann's function, or that sort of thing.