In essence, the P = NP problem can be restated as the following question:

Suppose that solutions to a problem can be verified quickly. Then, can the solutions themselves also be computed quickly? 

— Wikipedia on P versus NP problem

— 17:14, 31 July 2011

If the question of whether P=NP were to be answered affirmatively[,] it would trivialize the rest of the Millennium Prize Problems (and indeed all but the unprovable propositions in mathematics) because they would all have direct solutions easily solvable by a formal system.

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