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problem. Because determined effort has yet to find a polynomial-time solution to any of these problems, it is suspected to be difficult to show
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if and only if a given answer can be verified by a deterministic machine in polynomial time. Similarly, a language is in
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if a given answer can be verified in polynomial time, and the verifier machine only accepts at most
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answer for each problem instance. More formally, a language
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complexity theory
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integer factorization
parity game
Valiant–Vazirani theorem
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Complexity Zoo
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