• Shawn
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    I just have a short question as to what others more informed about computer science and programming think holds true for hypothetically solving (P v NP)?
  • Shawn
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    Sure, I'll try and present my considerations or reason for asking this deep question. Since I lack the skills, I'll just start out by saying that since logic has been progressing in a manner where one does not know whether that logic or a system of logic is universal, then assuming that logical monism is true, then one can think that it should be possible to find a hermetic/tautological language.

    But, to really reduce what I have to say or rephrase it as a question, are the implications of Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems somehow restricting us or preventing us from arriving at an answer? Is it that because of his theorems, scientists don't believe that P=NP? I'm only saying this because it is thought that for P=NP to be proven it would have to be a formally complete and consistent complexity class.
  • tim wood
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    There are numerous Youtube videos on P v. N-P. Best are from MIT. That's the place to start. A quick test: do you, gentle reader, know what N-P stands for?
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