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Nick's Class

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Steven Cook's class of those problems decidable in polylogarithmic time on polynomially many processors. A problem is in NC if there exist constants c and k such that it can be solved in time O(lgc n) using O(nk) parallel processors.

(Named after Nick Pippinger, not me.)