• computer science The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in theoretical computer science. Informally, it asks whether every problem whose solution...
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    theory, NP-complete problems are the hardest of the problems to which solutions can be verified quickly. Somewhat more precisely, a problem is NP-complete...
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    unsolved problems; it is also one of the Clay Mathematics Institute Millennium Prize Problems. The P versus NP problem is a major unsolved problem in computer...
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  • conjecture, Hodge conjecture, Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness, P versus NP problem, Riemann hypothesis, Yang–Mills existence and mass gap, and the Poincaré...
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  • the P versus NP problem, which is still widely considered the most important unsolved problem in theoretical computer science. The concept of NP-completeness...
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    Unsolved problem in computer science P   = ?   N P {\displaystyle {\mathsf {P\ {\overset {?}{=}}\ NP}}} More unsolved problems in computer science In...
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  • philosophy of mind. The P versus NP problem is an unsolved problem in computer science and mathematics. It asks whether every problem whose solution can be...
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  • limits on what computers can and cannot do. The P versus NP problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, is part of the field of computational complexity...
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  • drove interest in the study of NP-completeness and the P versus NP problem. Karp's 21 problems are shown below, many with their original names. The nesting...
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    answer questions about the fundamental nature of computation. The P versus NP problem, for instance, is directly related to questions of whether nondeterminism...
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  • the P-NP Puzzler Has Consequences" The New York Times, October 7, 2009(subscription required) - L. Fortnow, "The Status of the P Versus NP Problem", Communications...
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  • computers. One of the most important open problems in theoretical computer science is the P versus NP problem, which (among other equivalent formulations)...
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  • #P-complete problem, if it existed, would solve the P versus NP problem by implying that P and NP are equal. No such algorithm is known, nor is a proof...
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  • a polynomial-time algorithm is equivalent to the P versus NP problem, which is a famous open problem in the theory of computing. Nevertheless, as of 2007...
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    and P ≠ NP, then for many important problems it is not only impossible to get an exact solution in polynomial time (as postulated by the P versus NP problem)...
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  • proposed solutions. P versus NP problem – The P vs NP problem is a major unsolved question in computer science that asks whether every problem whose solution...
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  • solve the P versus NP problem, one of the most challenging mathematical problems in history. The title refers to the travelling salesman problem, an optimization...
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  • the P versus NP problem. Another technique is the proof of completeness for a complexity class, which provides evidence for the difficulty of problems by...
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  • theory, co-NP is a complexity class. A decision problem X is a member of co-NP if and only if its complement X is in the complexity class NP. The class...
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  • relevant to the P versus NP problem and their impact on computational complexity theory. Although some of the general problems are #P-hard problems, the special...
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    functions of an NP-complete problem and its co-NP-complete complement is exactly the same even though the underlying decision problems may not be considered...
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  • a problem that Will could solve, Kleitman and Bohman suggested the unsolved computer science P versus NP problem, but the film used other problems. The...
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    complexity can be the fastest algorithm for some problems is an open question known as the P versus NP problem. There are two large classes of such algorithms:...
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  • more efficient than known deterministic algorithms for many problems. The P versus NP problem encapsulates this conjectured greater efficiency available...
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    The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem concerns the mathematical properties of solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations, a system of partial...
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  • famous open problem in computer science – whether P = NP – by showing that the complexity class P is not equal to the complexity class NP. The idea behind...
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    unsolved P versus NP problem asks if all problems in NP have polynomial-time algorithms. All the best-known algorithms for NP-complete problems like 3SAT...
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  • would settle the P versus NP problem, considered the most important open problem in computer science and one of the Millennium Prize Problems. An example of...
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  • complexity P versus NP problem Termination analysis Worst-case execution time McConnell, Steve (2004). Code Complete (2nd ed.). Pearson Education. p. 374....
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    (1) P → ( Q → P ) {\displaystyle P\to (Q\to P)} , (2) ( P → ( Q → R ) ) → ( ( P → Q ) → ( P → R ) ) {\displaystyle (P\to (Q\to R))\to ((P\to Q)\to (P\to...
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