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▲ remywang 4 hours ago

3SUM is (was?) one of the key conjectures in fine-grained complexity, mostly used to derive lower bounds for other problems. As such, most did not think a subquadratic algorithm was possible. Similar for APSP

▲sigbottle 3 hours ago | parent [-]

But from what I understand this doesn't refute SETH, no?

▲aleph_minus_one an hour ago | parent | next [-]

> But from what I understand this doesn't refute SETH, no?

SETH: Strong Exponential Time Hypothesis

See https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Exponential_time_...

▲p11p 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

No it does not.