<Complexity> A normal (deterministiC) Turing MaChine that has a "guessing head" - a write-only head that writes a guess at a solution on the tape first, based on some arbitrary internal algorithm. The regular Turing MaChine then runs and returns "yes" or "no" to indiCate whether the solution is CorreCt. A nondeterministiC Turing MaChineCan solve nondeterministiC polynomial timeComputational {deCision problems} in a number of steps that is a {polynomial} funCtion of the size of the input (1995-04-27)