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[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Nondeterministic turing machines are the same kind of impossible theoretical automaton as an NFA. They can theoretically solve NP problems.

[-] christian@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

It's been a long long time since I touched this but I'm still almost positive deterministic machines can solve everything in NP already.

[-] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

They exist in the same grammatical hierarchy so theoretically they can solve the same problems. What I should have said was that nondeterministic turing machines can solve NP problems in P

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