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by emil-lp 229 days ago
> I don't understand why SAT solvers don't use gaussian elimination more.

These are the types of questions that can easily be answered by simply trying.

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I agree they can be answered, but easily - no. The Grobner basis algorithm has been known for longer than NP problems, so it's not obvious why it wasn't used to solve SAT problems.