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Tuesday, October 04, 2005

P=NP

Dear people,

The last Sunday, I went to a market to buy some books. There I saw something, which could turn the whole world around, well atleast for the computer scientists and mathematicians, and logicians, and statisticians, and programmers, and theoreticians, and ...

I saw this stationey shop which had a hoarding saying "Xerox photocopy 50 NP". Intrigued, I went inside and asked the guy sitting on the unusually withered chair - what's with the NP? "50 Paisa saheb", was his curt answer, pointing to another board which said "copies at just 50 P per copy". Nemesis fell... 50P = 50NP, or in other words P = NP. Hee ha ha ha...

mayur
http://students.iiit.ac.in/~hemani

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