Think the title says it all.
Nicu, I still don't believe it. I think you mis-spelt it for some devious purpose that only your nefarious mind could think up. I am keeping my eyes on you.
Why is that so funny, Etrius? :-p. Even I make mistakes, even though you may find it hard to believe ;-).
I think its funny how vildoran posted this in hoped that everyone would bash this guy for being a quitter, and it turned into this. Point of this comment section is that nobody gives a shit. :p
Humans invented calculators, as we invented maths, calculators without maths = useless machines.
god invented calculators for a reason. use them.
Yeah, but converting DNF to CNF and vice versa is such an easy problem to think about! All you have to do is use De-Morgan's law and move things around... And such a great result hinges on something that trivial, I find very exhilirating.
It's funny that you spelt intellectual wrong.
Mathematics is the ultimate expression of mankind's interlectual activity; the most original production of the human mind. Dixi :-p.
Totally.
Statement of the day!
Math sucks.
Heh! mission complete then ;-)
You ruining a good log with silly blanter skill has gone up.
Or I just have no clue what any of this means so I choose to make fun of you all for my own stupidity...
Arg, again I succeed in pointing out my lack of grey matter.
all of you math lovers can roll over and die...from a righteous buggering.
Well, I don't believe P=NP but if someday, someplace it's 'proven'... yeah!
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...and I have yet to meet a person who believes that P=NP :-p. I certainly don't.
Well yes but that doesn't really say anything except that: If this (NPC) problem can be solved in P-time, then P=NP. But that goes for //any// NPC problem, so it 'hinges' on all of them equally much :-p.
P != NP hinges on the fact that there is an exponential blow-up while converting CNF to DNF and vice versa.
I don't know who is working on it.. I just know it's not been solved :-p. And I don't think there is a right way, my conjecture is that P != NP, as seems to be most peoples conjectures, if they have one.
wrote it in the right way
Heh! no, I writed it in the right way P=NP, of course is more important for me as a computer geek, but to prove it is in the land of maths ;-)
Wasn't Wiles also working in the Goldbach conjecture?
Oh and Betus... P != NP (as is probably the case) is more a computer science than a pure math problem. If I were to pick a favorite it would be the annoyingly simple Goldbach conjecture:
**Every even number is the sum of no more than two primes.**
Simple to understand for every elementary student, but... unproved since 1742.
Although, the claim made in the log that you need to know a lot about all areas in math in order to even understand it, is highly exaggerated.
It's similar to the now somewhat 'famous' Taniyama-Shimura conjecture (now a theorem, since it was proved by Andrew Wiles in connection with his proof of 'Fermat's last theorem') in nature.
Thanks for making it all too understandable for me, Betus. :P
mmmmm
(just trying to be as 'pompous' as Rougan ;-))
In simple words :
'In 1967, Langlands suggested the existence of a relation between two seemingly unrelated mathematical objects: Galois representations and automorphic representations. Since then, the work of many mathematicians has focused on isolating and constructing algebraic varieties whose geometry is supposed to explain the existence of such correspondences.'
It's one of the most important unsolved problems in Maths, Rougan.
(Although I think the P=NP one is more important...)
Or just never have even thought about attacking Vildoran, because he's just so damn cool.
I'm stupid for never attacking. Good set up Vildoran. We should of been reading the log page instead of falling into the same trap that daywalker did.
What's Langland's conjecture about?
Drop your panties, Sir William, I cannot wait till lunchtime!
*heh* THEY know math, it's not very habitual to read/hear about Langland's Conjecture (at least in a MUD ;-))
Yes, because there -is- a Super clan in Arda.
:)
Thise clan have pople who appear to know about Math. But im not sure at all.
*has flashbacks of a room full of glass shards*...oops, wrong char. I blame Vildoran for that slip, I was overcome by his sexiness in this log.
Very sexy.
Vildoran is sexy.
This was the day after I locked Daywalker in there, so kinda old.