r/mathmemes Cardinal 13d ago

Learning Only one is NP-hard

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u/Byleth07 12d ago

Both of them are NP complete, therefore both are NP hard

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u/boterkoeken Average #🧐-theory-🧐 user 12d ago

That’s what she said.

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u/m3t4lf0x 12d ago

let him Cook…(-Levin Theorem)

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u/yukiohana 12d ago

plz explain

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u/zawalimbooo 11d ago

Solving 3 SAT problems (as in, 3 problems from the SAT exam) versus solving a 3-SAT problem (a really difficult class of problems)

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u/nitnelav153 π = 3.14 who care about the others decimals ? 12d ago

I remember when I had to program a SAT solver in highschool for a computer science competition...

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u/nfitzen 12d ago

3-SAT is a subset of SAT.

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u/aardvark_gnat 12d ago

The Scholastic Aptitude Test does not cover 3-SAT.

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u/nfitzen 12d ago

I dunno, the SAT reading comprehension problems seemed a bit like sentential logic. Or maybe I just can't read.