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[-] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

Find a computationally cheap way to factor large numbers --> banking system collapses

[-] Bye@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

They would just use OTPs and would be fine. You’d start having armored trucks drive around with hard drives full of keys, but it would be ok.

[-] julianh@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

Now I really want a dystopian novel about a world where p=np was proved and how the world adjusts to it.

[-] Bilbo@hobbit.world 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't that what quantum computing is all about?

[-] knorke3@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

to be fair, the earth would probably be pretty happy about that - humans just wouldn't be all too happy...

this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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