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Any NP-Complete problem will have cases that are trivial. The complexity of the problems is how they grow in the worst case.


Correction: every natural NP-complete problem will have easy cases. You can construct problems for which there is no easy case, which is a shame since I thought at one point you could use this trait to seperate P and NP


Interesting. How do you need to define "easy" for this to work? Can you give an example of a problem without an easy solution? Has this class of problem been studied?




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