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29 Sep 2024 13:26:50 EDT (-0400)
  Re: NP-complete  
From: triple r
Date: 9 Apr 2009 12:05:00
Message: <web.49de1baeb57439ee805d39df0@news.povray.org>
Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Hmm, I wonder... If a problem is "NP-complete", does that actually mean
> it's impossible to solve? Does it even mean it's necessarily difficult
> to solve? I was under the impression that NP-complete merely means it
> might take a long time to solve...

I would have thought this would really have driven the point home:

http://xkcd.com/287

 - Ricky


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