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Clearly this would be an exciting announcement, but is Knuth even known to be working on the problem?



Only in his sleep.


Isn't every computer scientist supposed to work on P=NP in their sleep? Or maybe it's their lack of sleep.

I forget who it was that said it first, but one of my profs relayed it as serious advice: that every computer scientist should dable in P=NP in his early years, then go off and do something useful for a few decades, and come back to it to dable again.




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