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kingstnap • yesterday at 10:54 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Some of these are interesting ngl.

109. Integer multiplication below n log n

Surprising that this is possible.

158. The Euclidean plane cannot be colored with five colors.

Only 6 and 7 remain!

376. Universal computation in forced Navier–Stokes flows.

Morning coffee proven turing complete


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zeroonetwothree • yesterday at 11:50 PM

Integer multiplication is very unexpected, I think most people believed in the n log n lower bound!

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mFixman • yesterday at 11:03 PM

> We give a deterministic algorithm that multiplies two n-bit integers in O(n (log n)^(1−κ)) worst- case time, with κ = 2^(−182).

LMAO, I don't think I ever saw such a small number in a CS result.

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