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From: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: P = NP
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Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 09:43:55 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 24 09:43:55 1986
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Reply-To: rgatkinson@watmum.UUCP (Robert Atkinson)
Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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I was waiting for someone else to say this, but...

Earlier this year, Ted Swartz (sp?) of the University of Guelph in
Guelph, Ontario claimed to have a proof that P=NP.  From what I know,
the jury is still out on whether he is correct or not; his proof
apparently can at best be called a (very long!) sketch.  Some
professors here at Waterloo that I have talked to doubt whether his
proof is correct, but no one has yet been able to find an actual hole.
I guess we just wait and see.

	-bob atkinson
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	-bob atkinson
	"I do not think, therefore I am a moustache." - J.P. Sartre