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Kaveh
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When would you read a paper claiming to have settled a long open problem like $P vs. NP$?

From time to time, people announce papers claiming to have settled long open problems like $P vs. NP$. There have been many attempts, reading them is time-consuming, and finding bugs in their arguments is not easy, ... . This brings up the following question:

When would you read a paper claiming to have settled an famous long open problem like $P vs. NP$? What are your criteria to consider such an announcement as serious?

Kaveh
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