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P v NP is still the most important problem in theoretical computer science and perhaps all of mathematics, and not that difficult to understand, at least on an intuitive level. I can see the fascination in wanting to solve it, much the way my teenage self dreamed of being the first to prove Fermat's last theorem (damn you Wiles).
Without evidence. The post states the question as open in 2025 and offers no argument for either answer; its value is as a contemporary confirmation that no claimed proof has been accepted and as a catalogue of how claimed proofs typically fail.
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You can view everything and copy the repo yourself here: https://github.com/SystymaticDev/P_does_not_equal_NP0 passages
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