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tractable

(definition)

Definition: A problem which has an algorithm which computes all instances of it in polynomial time.

See also intractable, decidable problem, solvable, computable.

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "tractable", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 9 August 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/tractable.html