Professor Amongus has shown that a decision problem L is polynomial-time reducible to an NP-complete problem M.

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Professor Amongus has shown that a decision problem L is polynomial-time reducible to an NP-complete problem M. Moreover, after 80 pages of dense mathematics, he has also just proven that L can be solved in polynomial time. Has he just proven that P = NP ? Why, or why not?

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Algorithm Design And Applications

ISBN: 9781118335918

1st Edition

Authors: Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia

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