• Dr. Jenkem@lemmy.blugatch.tube
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    6 months ago

    Most people would probably intuitively answer “no”, and most computer scientists agree, but this has still not been proven, so we actually don’t know.

    I disagree, I think most computer scientists believe that P != NP, at least when it comes to classical computers. If we believed that P = NP, then why would we bother with encryption?

    EDIT: nvm, I misread it.

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      6 months ago

      I think you’ve misunderstood 😅. Answering “no” to that question corresponds to P != NP (there are problems that are easy to verify but not easy to solve), while “yes” means P = NP (if a solution is easy to check, the problem must be easy to solve). So I am saying most people and most scientists believe P != NP exactly as you say.