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- From: mitch@novavax.UUCP (Mitch Silverman)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch,alt.folklore.computers,comp.benchmarks
- Subject: Re: the four-color theorem (was: Re: dinosaur horsepower)
- Message-ID: <4033@novavax.UUCP>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 22:42:41 GMT
- References: <Bs3oGt.6vp@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> <1992Jul30.053240.20199@yrloc.ipsa.reuter.COM> <mcdonald.190@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug11.224431.17076@bert.eecs.uic.edu> <1992Aug12.150356.25725@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Reply-To: mitch@novavax.nova.edu (Mitch Silverman)
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- In article <1992Aug12.150356.25725@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> wilson@math.wisc.edu (Bob Wilson) writes:
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- >What the proof is really belongs in some other group, but since it
- >is popular to talk these days about proofs which are only
- >probabalistically "true" it seemed appropriate to show why this
- >is not one of them. This is possibly relevant to this group since
- >many of the places such proofs ARE being used is in connection with
- >properties of computing systems.
-
- Well, I disagree, at least as far as comp.benchmarks and alt.folklore.computers.
- I for one would like to see a bit more about the proof (though your
- explanation above is perfectly lucid), such description being an excellent
- example of computer folklore.
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- And as for comp.benchmarks--think of what a good PC benchmark a four-color
- theorem prover might make--in five or ten years. (If that long.)
-
- Mitchell L. Silverman
- Student, New College of the University of South Florida
- mitch@cfraix.cfr.usf.edu
- mitch@novavax.nova.edu
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