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"Discovery of the century" is a shorthand for really important. Don't take it literally. Proving P=NP would be extremely significant in mathematics, though.
by andyjohnson0 11y ago
"Discovery of the century" is a shorthand for really important. Don't take it literally. Proving P=NP would be extremely significant in mathematics, though.
- mekkz 11y agoNobody doubts that proving P=NP would be the discovery of the century, but that's not what this paper is trying to prove.
- andyjohnson0 11y agoYou're correct. They're claiming an algorithm to solve an NP hard problem in polynomial time. I was thinking of "if this paper is a contribution to eventually proving/disproving P=NP...", but failed to express that.