number of steps to execute. This makes it an NP problem.</p>
<p>However, it can be shown that if <em>any</em> NP problem can be shown to have an algorithm which executes much faster (i.e. in polynomial time) and is thus a P problem, then <em>all</em> NP problems can be solved much faster. This is called the <span class="katex"><span class="katex-html" aria-hidden="true"><span class="base"><span class="strut" style="height:0.6833em;"></span><span class="mord mathnormal" style="margin-right:0.13889em;">P</spa