Years ago I came up with the first algorithm to solve a problem in a niche area in polynomial time. It uses some fairly contrived techniques; the power of the p

Years ago I came up with the first algorithm to solve a problem in a niche area in polynomial time. It uses some fairly contrived techniques; the power of the polynomial, if we really tried to estimate it, would probably have been >=10, or even >=20. But some time later another group of researchers expanded a technique used in the algorithm to help solve the problem in a much more practical manner.