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P vs NP

Edited by Jaime Sevilla Molina, et al. last updated 15th Jun 2016

The greatest currently open problem in complexity theory and computer science in general, which talks about the relationship between the class of efficiently solvable problems, P, and the class of problems with easily checkable solutions, NP.

It is a basic result that P⊆NP. However, we still do not know whether the reverse implication, P⊇NP, holds.

A positive, constructive result would have profound implications through all the fields of science and math, not to mention the whole of society.

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