P=NP and the traveling brown trout problem, solved in polynomial time!

One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics and
complexity theory has
finally been solved, it turns out, by the pnp mayfly:

http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...ies/index.html

"salmobytes" wrote

One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics and
complexity theory has
finally been solved,



The Traveling Angler Problem: Given the occurrence of high runoff water
and the cost of travel, what is the cheapest route between Northern
California and dependably rising Montana trout the week of May 6th, 2007 and
a couple weeks following? Scheduling the route from rising fish to rising
fish is a daunting challenge when the location of those fish is known, when
their location is unknown the task assumes a complexity that humbles average
minds.


Larry L ( pondering Infinity, String Theory, and where to go fishin' the
next couple weeks )



P.S. Your Keywords show at the bottom of the page, Sandy. Seems a bit odd
to me, .... on purpose or syntax error? .... maybe the weighty nature and
complexity of the page with it's PNP Mayfly simply warped the time/webspace
continuum?

On May 2, 8:19 am, "Larry L" wrote:
P.S. Your Keywords show at the bottom of the page, Sandy. Seems a bit odd
to me, .... on purpose or syntax error?

On purpose. It's a little SEO (search engine optimization) invention,
that works.
Google counts keywords in the body of html pages, but ignores the old
META tags in the head. Note too that most academic papers (now)
include a Keyword string at the top, usually above the abstract
paragraph.

As an experiment, I put the pseudo-word 'onamoxible' inside the
(visible) Keyword string at the bottom of one of my pages.
A few days later, a keyword search on onamoxible turned
that page up at the top of a Google search list.

So, as a website designer, if it bothers you that
pluralized keywords words turn up different search lists than their
singular counterparts, try pluralizing all your important keywords in
a list,
printed at the bottom of the page. Now you get both associations.
.....have your nymph and eat it too, as they say.

My pages are all machine generated. I have about 1000 pages now.
Attempting to edit that many pages with the keyboard would be
unreasonable.
The Keyword string just doubles up the link labels in the page,
plus (optional) additions from a mysql select on the page table.

"salmobytes" wrote


On purpose. It's a little SEO (search engine optimization) invention,
that works.
Google counts keywords in the body of html pages, but ignores the old
META tags in the head. Note too that most academic papers (now)
include a Keyword string at the top, usually above the abstract
paragraph.



could you enclose the keywords in a hidden layer and thus have the robots
see them but humans not? I no longer give a **** about increasing visits
to my site ... indeed the only reason I keep the domain is for the e-mail
addresses now used by my family ... but I applaud your research into the
mind of Google, SEO = big bucks if you get near the top of the page in
searches .. as you know

On May 2, 9:25 am, "Larry L" wrote:
could you enclose the keywords in a hidden layer and thus have the robots
see them but humans not?

Google will penalize your page rank if you do that.
Google wants the robot's view to be the same as the user's.
When you do make those two views diverge, Google calls it
"masquerading"
(I think that's the term) and they will find a way to make you feel
pain.

yours,

Gene Yusnot (aka Sandy)

On May 2, 11:00 pm, salmobytes wrote:
One of the most important unsolved problems in mathematics and
complexity theory has
finally been solved, it turns out, by the pnp mayfly:

http://montana-riverboats.com/Pages/...ly-Tiers/Sandy...

Droll, very droll.
;-)



Steve (who this very morning was pondering the notion that stream fish
live in trees)