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There have been two polls asking theorists (and others) what they thought of P vs NP (and other questions) [4, 5]. Both were written by William Gasarch and appeared in the Complexity Column of SIGACT News, edited by Lane A. Hemaspaandra. They were in 2002 and 2012. Since William Gasarch is fond of Van der Waerden's theorem, you would think the next poll would be 2022; however, Lane asked if it could be a bit earlier so as to be the 100th issue of his column. So here we are. In the past the questions for the poll appeared in Lane's column. This time they appear here in the Open Problems Column, which makes sense since, well, P vs NP is indeed an open problem.
有两个民意调查询问理论家(和其他人)他们对P vs NP(以及其他问题)的看法[4,5]。这两篇文章都是由William Gasarch撰写的,发表在SIGACT News的复杂性专栏上,由Lane A. Hemaspaandra编辑。分别是2002年和2012年。既然威廉·加萨奇(William Gasarch)喜欢范德华登定理(Van der Waerden’s theorem),你可能会认为下一次投票将在2022年;然而,莱恩问他是否可以早一点,这样他的专栏就可以第100期了。所以我们在这里。过去,民意调查的问题出现在莱恩的专栏中。这次它们出现在开放问题专栏中,这是有意义的,因为P对NP确实是一个开放问题。