Vertex cover hardness refers to the computational difficulty of approximating the vertex cover problem, which involves finding the smallest set of vertices in a graph such that every edge is incident to at least one vertex in the set. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and it is particularly significant in the context of approximation algorithms because it establishes a boundary for how well we can approximate solutions for hard problems.
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