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NP-complete
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complexity (NPC, Nondeterministic Polynomial time complete)
A set or property of computational decision problems which
is a subset of NP (i.e. can be solved by a
with the additional property that it is also NP-hard. Thus
a solution for one NP-complete problem would solve all
problems in NP. Many (but not all) naturally arising problems
in class NP are in fact NP-complete.
There is always a polynomial-time algorithm for transforming
an instance of any NP-complete problem into an instance of any
other NP-complete problem. So if you could solve one you
could solve any other by transforming it to the solved one.