meaning of nonpareil

1. Nonpareil One of five pedagogical languages based on Markov algorithms, used in ["Nonpareil, a Machine Level Machine Independent Language for the Study of Semantics", B. Higman, ULICS Intl Report No ICSI 170, U London 1968]. The others were Brilliant, Diamond, Pearl and Ruby. non parity parity non-polynomial The set or property of problems for which no polynomial-time algorithm is known. This includes problems for which the only known algorithms require a number of steps which increases exponentially with the size of the problem, and those for which no algorithm at all is known. Within these two there are problems which are "provably difficult" and "provably unsolvable".
2. a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar

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