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nondeterministic polynomial time

(definition)

Definition: See NP.

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "nondeterministic polynomial time", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 9 September 2013. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/nondeterministicPolynomialTime.html