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Boolean satisfiability problem

Boolean satisfiability problem

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Aug 26, 2026

Chris PeikertGUEST
11:58
That's what this did.
Chris PeikertGUEST
11:59
It just went straight from 3SAT to a CVP problem, this PROC CVP problem.
Deirdre ConnollyHOST
12:06
Nice.
Chris PeikertGUEST
12:07
And it did so with really just elegant, beautiful algebraic encoding of the 3SAT formula.
Chris PeikertGUEST
12:15
You have to take a 3SAT formula and translate it to a CVP, a lattice and a target point, and satisfying certain properties.
Chris PeikertGUEST
12:23
And it just did it straight.
Chris PeikertGUEST
12:25
It's like, oh, yeah, we're going to encode these whole formula as a Reed-Solomon code, a Reed-Solomon codeword.
Thomas PtacekHOST
13:30
And to just like confirm, I know we all know this from undergrad, but to confirm what we definitely learned in 376, like when you're doing the reduction there, the goal is to say, look, three set, we all agree, you know, is NP hard.

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