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January 1, 1974ACM SIGACT News43 citations

A terminological proposal

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DKDonald E. Knuth

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While preparing a book on combinatorial algorithms, I felt a strong need for a new technical term, a word which is essentially a one-sided version of polynomial complete. A great many problems of practical interest have the property that they are at least as difficult to solve in polynomial time as those of the Cook-Karp class KP. I needed an adjective to convey such a degree of difficulty, both formally and informally; and since the range of practical applications is so broad, I felt it would be best to establish such a term as soon as possible.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0930850d765b5cefd25a08https://doi.org/10.1145/1811129.1811130
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