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 | | Yet even the members of this elite, according to Grier, “came from the margins of the mathematical community, from the ranks of people who lacked doctorates, or who were unemployed, or who were not fully considered scientists.” |
 | | That leaves the hypothesis that ants have not yet invaded the icebox only because mechanical refrigeration is too recent an innovation, and not enough time has passed for evolution to catch up. |
 | | No known algorithm can settle the question in polynomial time, and it hasn’t even been established that the problem is in the class NP (nondeterministic polynomial time). |
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