Comment by vanderZwan

See his answer to the seventeenth question in this interview:

https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2213858&WT....

> Don Knuth: As you say, I've come to believe that P = N P, namely that there does exist an integer M and an algorithm that will solve every n-bit problem belonging to the class N P in n**M elementary steps.