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		_wldu on May 22, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Notifying administrators about unhashed password s... I think you mean... P = NP. Which is very unlikely as we could do away with mathematicians if that were true.

jrochkind1 on May 22, 2019 | [–]

Seems unlikely, but not proven. That's the point. I dunno about 'do away with mathematicians'.

fiddlerwoaroof on May 22, 2019 | [–]

Yeah, I just thought that showing how to solve a best-case exponential function in polynomial kind was the sort of thing that would prove P = NP (I dictated this before, so NP came out as MP)

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