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polynomial-time
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(complexity)polynomial-time - (P) The set or property of problems which can be solved by a known polynomial-time algorithm.


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In the latter case, researchers describe the algorithm as taking no more than polynomial time.
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For his theoretical work in devising an Interior Point method for linear programming that provably runs in polynomial time, and for his implementation work suggesting that Interior Point methods could be effective for linear programming in practice as well as theory.
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Satisfiability problems (see box) that involve expressions with only two variables in each clause (termed 2-SAT) can be solved in what is called polynomial time.
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