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[–] chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] Bye@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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 2 years ago

Isn't that what quantum computing is all about?

[–] knorke3@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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