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When we talk about the big-O for a given problem, the default interpretation is for a deterministic computer. All of our existing deterministic algorithms for N
by johncolanduoni 9y ago
When we talk about the big-O for a given problem, the default interpretation is for a deterministic computer. All of our existing deterministic algorithms for NP-complete problems are exponential, and solving an NP-complete problem like SAT on a non-deterministic computer is trivial (and not especially useful since we don't know how to build those).