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PSPACE

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The complexity class of decision problems that can be solved using an amount of memory that grows polynomially with the size of the input, regardless of how much time the computation takes; believed, though not proven, to be strictly larger than NP.

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The set of all decision problems that can be solved by a Turing machine using a polynomial amount of space. 1
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1. PSPACE, Wikipedia
  • Lead section, first sentence
    PSPACE is the set of all decision problems that can be solved by a Turing machine using a polynomial amount of space.
  • In Group: Space, Exponential Time and Probabilistic Classes, Lead
    In computational complexity theory, PSPACE is the set of all decision problems that can be solved by a Turing machine using a polynomial amount of space.
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