How the Web Rallied To Review the P != NP Claim

An anonymous reader writes "Remember, about a month ago, when a researcher claimed he had a proof that P != NP? Well, the proof hasn't held up. But blogs and news sites helped spur a massive, open, collaborative effort on the Internet to understand the paper and to see if its ideas could be extended. This article explains what happened, how the proof was supposed to work, and why it failed."

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Re:So... we disproved P != NP

[Jorl17]

Yes, you are right. Though it is seriously more likely that somebody "disagreed" with my point of view. I've seen comments modded +5 insightful and riddled with spelling mistakes. I have also seen comments without any mod riddled with spelling mistakes. Usually, when that is the case, someone just lets it pass. Of course, one specific moderator could've done that, and I did say something that wasn't necessarily true.