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The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:53 ADT
bram (bram@gawth.com)
Mon, 6 Apr 1998 15:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Peter Wayner wrote:
> It's an interesting question to imagine breaking RSA this way.
> Autistics are often known to have the strange ability to simply
> "see" the right answer to a complicated math problem. They just
> look at a long multiplication and "see" the right result. Has
> anyone done a study on whether they can be taught to "see" the
> answer to intractable problems in math like the inverse
> logarhythm, number factoring or some NP-complete problems like
> 3SAT?
Autistics are still doing real computation, whether they can figure out
the details or not. They're still restrained by the same complexity
theoretic principles of tractability as computers are.
Now if you sprinkled some magic fairy dust on an autistic's head, that
might work.
-Bram
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:53 ADT