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<node id="80398" title="Re: Re: Re: Re: (Golf) Minimizing the Bacon Number" created="2001-05-14 23:15:39" updated="2005-07-19 14:08:39">
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jynx</author>
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&lt;br&gt;
An NP problem is a programming problem that can only be 
solved by the theoretical nondeterministic Turing machine
(NP stands for Nondeterministic Polynomial).  An NP-Complete problem has the property that if you can find a polynomial running time solution to this problem than you can find a polynomial solution to all other NP problems as well.  Unfortunately, that works both ways, if you prove that there is &lt;b&gt;no&lt;/b&gt; polynomial solution to the problem than all other NP problems don't have a polynomial runtime as well.&lt;p&gt;
For more information, look [http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?NP-complete|here].&lt;p&gt;
Hope This Helps,&lt;br&gt;
jynx&lt;p&gt;
&lt;b&gt;Update&lt;/b&gt;: D'oh!  Beaten by [MeowChow]...</field>
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