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Discovery

After the discovery of NP-complete, it became apparent that

some problems are just as hard but are not not decision problems

such as

  • “Does a tour of given maximum length exists?” (in NP and NP-complete)
  • “What is the shortest tour?” (not in NP, but just as hard or harder)

which gave birth to NP-hard.


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