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Adam Shostack (adam@homeport.org)
Tue, 7 Apr 1998 08:54:36 -0400 (EDT)
bram wrote:
| 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.
Fascinating. I'm sure you have a reference to some clever experiment
that shows that autistics work that way?
Adam
-- Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Fri Aug 21 1998 - 17:16:54 ADT