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    Supports→A proof that P ≠ NP would validate the Cobham-Edmonds Thesis as a correct analysis of the pre-theoretical notion of feasibility

    Such a proof would allow us to unconditionally assert that NP-hard problems are intractable in the general case

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    Among these are Grover’s algorithm (Grover 1996) for searching an unsorted database (which runs in time \(O(n^{1/2})\), whereas the best possible classical algorithm is \(O(n)\)) and Shor’s algorithm (Shor 1999) for integer factorization (which runs in \(O(\log_2(n)^3)\), whereas the best known classical algorithm is \(O(2^{\log_2(\log_2(n))^{1/3})}\)). Since it can be shown that quantum models can simulate models such as the classical Turing machine, \(\textbf{BQP}\) contains \(\textbf{P}\) and

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