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Re:Classic Nintendo Games Are NP-Hard (2012) by etatoby on Thursday December 28, 2017 @01:25PM (#16023793)
> [NP means that] a non deterministic machine (one that could magically search multiple states at once) can find a solution in polynomial time

Which is exactly what quantum computers can do for certain classes of problems, such as integer factorization.

Sadly, it seems not to be the case (or not yet found?) for the most well known and useful class of NP problems, NP-complete.

See this discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1371150

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