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### The exact relation between complexity classes and algorithm complexities [duplicate]

Are all algorithms which have polynomial time complexity belong to P class ? And P class do not have any algorithm which does have not polynomial complexity ? Are all algorithms which have non ...
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### Is it necessary for NP problems to be decision problems?

Professor Tim Roughgarden from Stanford University while teaching a MOOC said that solutions to problems in the class NP must be polynomial in length. But the wikipedia article says that NP problems ...
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### P, NP and specialised Turing Machines

I'm sort of new, but very interested to the field of computing and complexity theory, and I want to clarify my understanding about how to class problems, and how strongly the problems relate to the ...
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### How not to solve P=NP?

There are lots of attempts at proving either $\mathsf{P} = \mathsf{NP}$ or $\mathsf{P} \neq \mathsf{NP}$, and naturally many people think about the question, having ideas for proving either direction....
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### What is meant by "solvable by non deterministic algorithm in polynomial time" [duplicate]

In many textbooks NP problems are defined as: Set of all decision problems solvable by non deterministic algorithms in polynomial time I couldn't understand the part "solvable by non deterministic ...