Sudoku fan? After diving into the math behind the game, test your skills with our very own puzzles in SciAm Games! Computer science seemingly rides a curve of unstoppable progress. Mere decades took ...
情報処理における全国のエキスパートが一堂に会したリクルート主催の「春の情報処理祭」。20世紀末のミレニアム懸賞にも選ばれた「P≠NP」という未解決問題に対して、アルゴリズムを用いたアプローチ方法を電気通信大学准教授の岡本吉央氏が解説しました ...
Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.
1. The P v. NP problem asks whether all problems whose solutions can be verified in some time can also be solved in a comparable length of time. What is this length of time called for the purpose of ...
A new proof, published to the Web less than one week ago, purports to finally demonstrate that, in complexity theory, P != NP. As fast as the proof went up though, people found some potential issues ...