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In a Turing-machine or RAM model, determine whether a decision problem P can have a 10n-time algorithm, a particular 100n²-time algorithm A, yet every 10n-time algorithm for P has a description strictly larger than A.

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In a Turing-machine or RAM model, determine whether a decision problem P can have a 10n-time algorithm, a particular 100n²-time algorithm A, yet every 10n-time algorithm for P has a description strictly larger than A.

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