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		Dellort on April 11, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Donald Knuth making an Earthshaking Announcement J... Use your professors. There are no stupid questions only stupid answers. I am sure they will be glad that you ask, assuming you are a CS student.

jacobolus on April 12, 2010 [–]

Are you trying to make some kind of joke? NP = “nondeterministic polynomial time”, and it is a complexity class of computation problems.

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