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Wiki to Help Solve Millennium Problems?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the np-complete dept.

MattWhitworth writes "A new wiki has been set up over at QEDen to try to gather a community to solve the Millennium Problems. The problems are seven as yet unsolved mathematical problems that continue to vex researchers today. What do you think of this effort? Will gathering a community of people help solve problems such as P=NP, or do you think it requires a lot more than a semi-qualified community to approach the problem?"

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  1. Meanwhile... by hunterx11 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Kofi Annan and Jeffrey Sachs set up a wiki to solve the Millennium Development Goals which mind-bogglingly manages to be even less successful.

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  2. Mass Gap in the Yang-Mills equestion... by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a simple one. The missing mass is vaporware from all the features that Microsoft was promising for Windows Vista and all the promises the Duke Nukem Forever will be released. Once Windows Vista is fully featured and Duke Nukem Forever is released, the equations should work correctly. The odds of that happening is... like a spaceship being swallowed by a large dog in space. :)

  3. Solutions by Ray+Radlein · · Score: 4, Funny

    The real>/i> question is, will this Wiki be able to reach its solutions in non-Polynomial time?

  4. Re:Please. . . by flyingsquid · · Score: 4, Funny
    But that's a far cry from expecting those children from being able to help me solve Navier-Stokes equations, apply classical thermodynamics, statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics to arrive at quantitative models of deflagration explosions.

    Aha! A charlatan!