nondeterministic polynomial time (English, noun)
expansion: nondeterministic polynomial time (countable and uncountable, plural nondeterministic polynomial times)
Senses:
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glosses: A class of decision problems for which a yes solution can be verified by a deterministic Turing machine in polynomial time, or alternatively a set of problems that can be solved in polynomial time by a nondeterministic Turing machine.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: nondeterministic polynomial times
tags: plural