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fpoling • today at 5:32 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

And vise versa, a proof that P!=NP do not exclude an algorithm that is fast enough for practical n.


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Dylan16807 • today at 7:17 AM

Maybe, but that feels significantly more exotic and unlikely to me. You have to basically negate the natural cost scaling of brute force in the thousand to million n range but lose that speed benefit later.