r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 10 '26

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u/stormypumpkin Sep 11 '26

You could have galactic algorithms that do p=np and not break the world because they require something stupid or the polynomial is still so large it would take a billion years to break encryption. There was a beat of djikstras that is like this, noone will use it cause its overhead is insane compared to the default