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Questions about decision problems that can be solved on nondeterministic Turing machines in time polynomial in the length of the input.

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What is so fundamental about polynomial functions that they are used to demarcate the Hardne...

This question has been bugging me ever since I first came across the concept of NP, NP-Complete, and NP-Hard a few years back: what is so fundamental about the polynomial functions that they are used to …
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