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How is the Longest Path Problem NP complete?

I agree with @Kyle Jones; and the 'iff' part in the proof looks little fishy to me. For the NP-Hard part, you may refer to my answer here https://cs.stackexchange.com/a/137129/62634 - I've tried to pr …
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How Reduction works in proving NP-Hard?

A problem $X$ is $NP$-Hard if for all $Y \in NP$, $Y \leq_P X$. Further, if a problem $Z$ is $NP$-Complete, and $Z \leq_P X$, then I can prove (rather mechanically) that $X$ is $NP$-Hard. I also fo …
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A doubt on converting NOT gate to CNF formula

For a NOT gate if $x_1$ is input and $x_2$ is the corresponding output, I see the equivalent CNF (conjunctive normal form) is $(x_1 \lor x_2) \land (\overline x_1 \lor \overline x_2)$. My expectation …
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How to prove NP-hardness of a longest-path problem?

Suppose we have a solution to the longest path problem, longest-path, in which given a graph G, and an integer k, we need to decide if G has any (simple) path of k edges. Then to solve the Hamiltonian …
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