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Comment author: bentarm 04 January 2010 10:21:39PM * 1 point [-]

Now, imagine someone comes up with an insight so good that all mathematicians agree P=NP.

All mathematicians already agree that P != NP. I'm not sure quite how much more of a consensus you could ask for on an unsolved maths problem.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2010 02:26:59AM * 1 point [-]

All mathematicians already agree that P != NP.

Not all of them.

Comment author: alexflint 05 January 2010 04:31:21AM -2 points [-]

Just because there are some that disagree doesn't mean we must assign 50% probability to each case.

Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2010 10:12:36PM 1 point [-]

I wasn't claiming that we must assign 50% probability to each case.

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