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Obstacles to computing $\pi(n)$ in $O(n^{2/3-\epsilon})$ time

Edit: Apologies, as mentioned in the comments I failed to notice the analytic algorithms that take $O(n^{1/2+\epsilon})$ time, so this question doesn’t make much sense. It’s possible there is a ...
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Does this information theoretical thought experiment have a name or corresponding area of research?

I came up with the following thought experiment in my research in order to better understand the way Turing machines can transfer information through their tapes (the motivation is detailed below, isn'...
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Feasibility of linear programs

It's known that finding the intersection of n halfplanes in 2-d takes $\Omega(n\log n)$ time. Does the lower bound apply if we change the question to deciding whether the intersection is non-empty?
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Super-linear time complexity lower bounds for any natural problem in NP?

Do we know any problem in NP which has a super-linear time complexity lower bound? Ideally, we would like to show that 3SAT has super-polynomial lower bounds, but I guess we're far away from that. I'd ...
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