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shokwave comments on [SEQ RERUN] Sorting Pebbles Into Correct Heaps - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: shokwave 27 July 2012 05:02:11AM *  1 point [-]

Right, a primality test is not hard like factorisation, but it's harder than multiplication. Our pebblesorters are clearly somewhere between multiplication and prime testing. If a pebblesorter proved something like the AKS algorithm, they would win more than the Gödel prize!