🚀 go-pugleaf

ah wrote:
> Holly wrote:
> > ah wrote:
> >> Holly wrote:
> >> > Put down your socks and get ready to get yer priZe!
> >> >
> >> > "Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory
> >> > Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. Petersburg, announced that he had solved
> >> > a famous and intractable mathematical problem, known as the Poincaré
> >> > conjecture, about the nature of space.
> >> >
> >> > After posting a few short papers on the Internet and making a whirlwind
> >> > lecture tour of the United States, Dr. Perelman disappeared back into
> >> > the Russian woods in the spring of 2003, leaving the world's
> >> > mathematicians to pick up the pieces and decide if he was right.
> >> >
> >> > Now they say they have finished his work, and the evidence is
> >> > circulating among scholars in the form of three book-length papers with
> >> > about 1,000 pages of dense mathematics and prose between them.
> >> >
> >> > As a result there is a growing feeling, a cautious optimism that they
> >> > have finally achieved a landmark not just of mathematics, but of human
> >> > thought."
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Poincaré's conjecture:  "It asserts that if any loop in a certain
> >> > kind of three-dimensional space can be shrunk to a point without
> >> > ripping or tearing either the loop or the space, the space is
> >> > equivalent to a sphere. "
> >> >
> >> > "In effect, what Poincaré suggested was that anything without holes
> >> > has to be a sphere. The one qualification was that this "anything"
> >> > had to be what mathematicians call compact, or closed, meaning that it
> >> > has a finite extent: no matter how far you strike out in one direction
> >> > or another, you can get only so far away before you start coming back,
> >> > the way you can never get more than 12,500 miles from home on the
> >> > Earth."
> >> >
> >> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/15/science/15math.html?_r=1&8dpc&oref=slogin
> >> >
> >> > Now this is exciting!
> >>
> >> Considering the intractable n=7, it's no surprise.
> >
> >
> > Intractable because it could take forever?  Deterministic?  A time
> > complexity?
>
> Standard deviation, I guess.
>
> > · DTIME(T(n)) = ...  <scratch n sniff>
> 
> Filth!
> -- 
> ah

What part of your body do you scratch N sniff?