Alan Turing was a British mathematician born 100 years ago this year, who apparently committed suicide by eating a poisoned apple, like Snow White, after being convicted for the then British crime of a homosexual act with an adult.

If you can answer that question, "Does P=NP," you get a million dollars, if not an apple.

If people like to honor academics, since P=NP is the most important question that derives from Turing's work, maybe someone will finally prove that P=NP is true, false, or undecidable, since that's what academics tend to like the most, like Cheers, that everyone knows your name.

Since every coding scheme hinges on that question, its not your garden variety question either, and a million dollars is nice, especially when it doesn't require eating a cyanide laced apple, which for those who are angered by Turing's death, must admit showed a lovely and so veddy British style.

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