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"In theoretical computer science, a computational problem is a mathematical object representing a question that computers might want to solve. For example, ""given any number x, determine whether x is prime"" is a computational problem. Computational problems are one of the main objects of study in theoretical computer science, because nearly any task we would want to accomplish is an example of a computational problem. In the field of algorithms, we study methods of solving computational problems; in the complementary field of computational complexity theory, we organize computational problems based on how difficult they are to solve.

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