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  1. adj. computing theory Describing the hardest problems that are in the class NP, and whose solutions can be verified in polynomial time.

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  • “Slime mold is capable of solving NP-complete graph problems (which I cannot do myself).”

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  • “I think porn was proven to be "NP-complete" a while ago.”

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  • “Computing the conditions for fine tuning based on landscape arguments is likely an NP-complete problem.”

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  • “In the meantime, although the game seems quite stark and simple, it's entirely possible that it's NP-complete.”

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  • “What has happened here is that, as computer science tries to understand ai it has realized that many aspects of ai are NP-complete or NP-hard, and a few aspects are not.”

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  • “Spooky Computing Quantum computers hold the possibility of solving what computer science calls "NP-complete" problems, the problems that are impossible or nearly impossible to calculate on a classical computer.”

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  • “Regardless, the properties of quantum tunneling allows Orion to tackle a limited type of NP-complete problems – a particularly tedious type problem first proposed by Stephen Cook in 1971.”

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  • “May be a bit technical for lay people, what with all the talk about NP-complete problems, but still, it's quite an interesting story.”

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  • “And, incidentally, looks a lot like the usual situation when heuristics can solve NP-complete problems.”

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  • NP-complete problem using a construction of rods and balls (Vergis et.al. 1986) that unfortunately ignores the accumulating time-delays in the rigid rods that result in an exponential overall slowdown.”

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