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NP-hard
NP-hard[¦en¦pē ′härd] (computer science) Referring to problems at least as hard as or harder than any problem in NP. Given a method for solving an NP-hard problem, any problem in NP can be solved with only polynomially more work. NP-hard (complexity)A set or property of computational search problems. A problem is NP-hard if solving it in polynomial time would make it possible to solve all problems in classNP in polynomial time.
Some NP-hard problems are also in NP (these are called"NP-complete"), some are not. If you could reduce an NPproblem to an NP-hard problem and then solve it in polynomialtime, you could solve all NP problems.
See also computational complexity.
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