> a chance of failure
Well, technically, no chance of failure. The chance of failure is absolute zero. Not close to zero, absolute zero. There will be no failure if the assumptions of the model are correct.
The real catch here is in the assumptions.
How long do you have before you need to have a solution? An hour, a year, a century? Too bad, almost sure convergence only provides a guarantee if you wait an infinite amount of time.
And then there's the question of the probability space you assume. (The sigma algebra.) Which things do you assume to have probability zero from the start and is that realistic?
> How long do you have before you need to have a solution? An hour, a year, a century? Too bad, almost sure convergence only provides a guarantee if you wait an infinite amount of time.
Thanks for this. I was actually just thinking "this can't actually work, it would mean P vs NP is solved." Of course, this explains why it doesn't mean that.