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unusual facts about P = NP problem



Automatic test pattern generation

Since the ATPG problem is NP-complete (by reduction from the Boolean satisfiability problem) there will be cases where patterns exist, but ATPG gives up since it will take an incredibly long time to find them (assuming P≠NP, of course).

Sergey Yablonsky

Yablonsky and his students were ones of the first in the world to raise the issues of potentially inherent unavoidability of the brute force search for some problems, the precursor of the P = NP problem, though Gödel's letter to von Neumann, dated 20 March 1956 and discovered in 1988, may have preceded them.


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