Talk:Computational complexity theory

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I wonder where would be a good place to mention that we know some problems not in P, for instance Presburger arithmetic. --AxelBoldt

I've added it to Complexity classes P and NP. It should also be added to EXPTIME, whenever someone gets around to writing it. I would put it under P too, except that's more of a redirect than a real article. --LC


I've added a note explaining (in brief) what the Co classes are. What do you think about trying to consolidate many of these articles? For example, NP and Co-NP should probably be the same article, as should NP-complete and Co-NP-complete

GulDan 18:10, 31 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Featured article removal

This article was removed from being a featured article with the following comments that may be helpful in improving the article: [1]

How on Earth did this get featured? No mention of models of computation. No mention of Turing machines! No explanation of non-determinism. Nothing about randomized algorithms. Nothing about parallel computation and the structure of P. Nothing about reduction. No pictures. No history. Gdr 08:40, 2004 Jul 26 (UTC)

  • Support removal. The weird thing is that I don't even see this article on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Featured log. When the WP:FA page was new, a lot of people added articles themselves, as the candidate process was kind of unclear. - DropDeadGorgias (talk) 17:02, Jul 26, 2004 (UTC)
  • Support removal; this is nowhere near comprehensive. — Matt 17:32, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
  • Remove posthaste. The "notable researchers" section is particularly disturbing; you can hardly do such a list justice, certainly not with only a dozen names. +sj+ 05:10, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)