Lance Fortnow
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Lance Fortnow
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Complexity Theorist
And none of them say "Exit".
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
A youth who had begun to read geometry with Euclid, when he had learnt the first proposition, inquired, "What do I get by learning these things?" So Euclid called a slave and said "Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns."

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