“There’s a link on Slashdot about how to solve NP-complete problems in linear time using Peanut M&M’s! There’s also an interview with Dr. Doofus McRoofus in New Scientist, where he says quantum computing proves the reality of time travel! Plus, a mathematician at the University of Trivialshire has apparently announced a new number system where you can take not only square roots, but also the square roots of square roots!”
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Damn. And I thought I was on to something with the linearithmic time algorithm I got from tropical fruit skittles.
The Technical Institute of Freedonia sounds like my kind of place, though…
Well, don’t lose hope just yet. I bet the skittle algorithm and the M&M algorithm are just two different decategorifications of the same underlying theory.