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- From: greg@cs.washington.edu (Greg Barnes)
- Subject: Re: P=NP??? $50,000
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.131205.11664@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Keywords: Money
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- Organization: Judy Vickery Fan Club, Saarbr\"ucken Chapter
- References: <1glp51INN1gg@nunki.anu.edu.au> <4839@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 92 13:12:05 GMT
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- In article <4839@svin09.info.win.tue.nl> robg@info.win.tue.nl writes:
- >What puzzles me is the complete silence of Gismondi and Swart in this thread.
- >From the potential winners of the next Turing award, who knows
- >maybe the field medal, I expect some interest in getting the proofs debugged.
-
- From the Home Office in Puyallup, Washington, it's the...
-
- Top Ten Reasons Gismondi and Swart Haven't Responded to the Postings on
- comp.theory
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- 10. Gismondi's dog ate the crucial lemma.
- 9. Haven't logged in since Mike Robson flooded their mailboxes with
- e-mail messages demanding his $50,000.
- 8. On advice of counsel, further details will not be revealed until the
- patent is obtained.
- 7. On the run from the NSA after using their algorithm to break numerous
- government public-key encryption schemes.
- 6. Rubbed out by Chris Long to avoid paying off his $1000 bet.
- 5. After seeing pictures of Somalia, decided a bunch of optimization
- problems just aren't so damned relevant; joined the Peace Corps.
- 4. Don't want a bunch of pesky New York Times reporters calling them up
- at all hours.
- 3. Car overturned while driving to Guelph with their new manuscript;
- currently convalescing in the cabin of their `number one fan.'
- 2. After factoring a few million numbers, caught a glimpse of the
- ultimate pattern of Creation; last seen gibbering in a dark corner.
- 1. Busy simulating their $O(n^{6}$ Graph Isomorphism algorithm by hand on
- two 100-node graphs; should be done by 32,992 AD.
-
-
- Greg Barnes
- greg@cs.washington.edu
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- I hope everyone's taking notes in case there's another STOC Follies.
-