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<p>integer n, count the number of nontrivial prime factors of n."</p>

<p>A counting problem can be represented by a function f from {0, 1}<sup>*</sup> to the nonnegative integers. For a search relation R, the counting problem associated to R is the function</p>

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:f<sub>R</sub>(x) = |{y: R(x, y) }|.</p>

<p><big>Optimization problem</big></p>
<p>An <a href="page.php?w=optimization_problem">optimization problem</a> asks for finding a "best possible" solution among the set of all possible solutions to a search problem. One example is the maximum independent</p><p>
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