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Re: Horn clauses

#1998
From: M. Alex Colvin
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1990 14:25
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>How difficult is resolution of propositional Horn clauses,
>i.e. consider a prolog program without variables ...

isn't this the same as SAT (Boolean satisfiability), the canonical
NP-complete problem?
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From: mac@ra.cs.Virginia.EDU (M. Alex Colvin)
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Subject: Re: Horn clauses
Summary: satisfiability
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Date: 9 Jan 90 14:25:20 GMT
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Organization: U.Va. CS Department, Charlottesville, VA
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