meaning of satisfies

1. satisfiability problem A problem used as an example in complexity theory. It can be stated thus: Given a Boolean expression E, decide if there is some assignment to the variables in E such that E is true. A Boolean expression is composed of Boolean variables, logical negation NOT, logical conjunction AND and parentheses for grouping. The satisfiability problem was the first problem to be proved to be NP-complete by Cook. ["Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation" by Hopcroft and Ullman, pub. Addison-Wesley].


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