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Wed 18 November 2009
by larry
in Offtopic

Complex derivatives are "intractable" -- you can't tell if they're being tampered with - Boing Boing.

Determining if a "Collateralized Debt Obligation" was tampered with is a "densest subgraph" problem, which is NP-Complete. Which is a fine thing to depend a global economy on.

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