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In [[computer science]] and [[operations research]], '''exact algorithms''' are [[algorithm]]s that always solve an optimization problem to optimality.

Unless [[P = NP]], such an exact algorithm for an [[NP-hardness | NP-hard]] optimization problem cannot run in worst-case [[polynomial time]]. but thereThere has been extensive research on finding exact algorithms whose running time is exponential with a low base.<ref>{{citation
| last1 = Fomin | first1 = Fedor V.
| last2 = Kaski | first2 = Petteri