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NP-complete

Summary

NP-complete is a complexity class[1]. NP-complete ranks in the top 3% of complexity_class entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (726 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • NP-complete's image is recorded as P np np-complete np-hard.svg[3].
  • NP-complete's instance of is recorded as complexity class[4].
  • NP-complete's subclass of is recorded as computational problem[5].
  • NP-complete's part of is recorded as NP-hard[6].
  • NP-complete's part of is recorded as NP[7].
  • NP-complete's Commons category is recorded as NP-complete problems[8].
  • NP-complete's has part is recorded as weak NP-completeness[9].
  • NP-complete's has part is recorded as strong NP-completeness[10].
  • NP-complete's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/09tkl[11].
  • NP-complete's topic's main category is recorded as Category:NP-complete problems[12].
  • NP-complete's facet of is recorded as P versus NP problem[13].
  • NP-complete's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://cstheory.stackexchange.com/tags/np-complete[14].
  • NP-complete's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://cs.stackexchange.com/tags/np-complete[15].
  • NP-complete's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://stackoverflow.com/tags/np-complete[16].
  • NP-complete's has characteristic is recorded as completeness[17].
  • NP-complete's MathWorld ID is recorded as NP-CompleteProblem[18].
  • NP-complete's Open Library subject ID is recorded as np-complete_problems[19].
  • NP-complete's Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures ID is recorded as npcomplete[20].
  • NP-complete's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[21].
  • NP-complete's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 122749075[22].
  • NP-complete's ProofWiki ID is recorded as Definition:NP-Complete[23].
  • NP-complete's PlanetMath ID is recorded as NPcomplete[24].
  • NP-complete's GitHub topic is recorded as np-completeness[25].
  • NP-complete's Enciclopedia della Scienza e della Tecnica ID is recorded as problemi-np-completi[26].
  • NP-complete's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C122749075[27].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for NP-complete include Karp's 21 NP-complete problems[28], a set[29].

Why It Matters

NP-complete ranks in the top 3% of complexity_class entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (726 views/month).[2] NP-complete has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] NP-complete is known by 37 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for NP-complete include Karp's 21 NP-complete problems[28], a set[29].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [11] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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