Decision Problems are Polynomial Time Equivalent to their Reporting Problems

• Example: Subset sum

  • Decision Problem: Determine if a subset sum exists.
  • Reporting Problem: Determine if a subset sum exists and report one if it does.

• Using decision to report

  • Let subset-sum(A,b) return true if some subset of A adds up to b. Otherwise it returns false.

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