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NP-Completeness

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NP-complete names the hardest problems in NP: a problem qualifies when it sits in NP and every NP problem reduces to it — one efficient solution would solve them all.

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Longest path — the highest-cost route without repeats — is easy shortest path's hard twin.

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No deterministic polynomial algorithm is known for any.