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No problem (488 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

alternative to you're welcome, which shares the same function. In the culture of younger Americans, no problem is often used as a more conversational alternative
Monty Hall problem (8,898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, based nominally on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal
P versus NP problem (7,784 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
problem in computer science If the solution to a problem is easy to check for correctness, must the problem be easy to solve? More unsolved problems in
Problem of evil (18,080 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The problem of evil is the philosophical question of how to reconcile the existence of evil and suffering with an omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and omniscient
Year 2038 problem (3,113 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The year 2038 problem (also known as Y2038, Y2K38, Y2K38 superbug or the Epochalypse) is a time computing problem that leaves some computer systems unable
Halting problem (7,356 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
continue to run forever. The halting problem is undecidable, meaning that no general algorithm exists that solves the halting problem for all possible program–input
No true Scotsman (850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
No true Scotsman or appeal to purity is an informal fallacy in which one modifies a prior claim in response to a counterexample by asserting the counterexample
Three-body problem (5,904 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
universal gravitation. Unlike the two-body problem, the three-body problem has no general closed-form solution, meaning there is no equation that always solves
Species (10,502 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Earth, regardless of the theoretical difficulties. If species were fixed and distinct from one another, there would be no problem, but evolutionary processes
Year 2000 problem (12,840 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The term year 2000 problem, or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and
NP-completeness (3,617 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
a problem is NP-complete when: It is a decision problem, meaning that for any input to the problem, the output is either "yes" or "no". When the answer
Computational complexity theory (6,704 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
decision problem—that is, the output is not just yes or no. Notable examples include the traveling salesman problem and the integer factorization problem. It
Collatz conjecture (7,104 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to 1? More unsolved problems in mathematics The Collatz conjecture is one of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematics. The conjecture asks whether
Travelling salesman problem (11,628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In the theory of computational complexity, the travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks the following question: "Given a list of cities and the distances
Four color theorem (6,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
3-colorable. Hadwiger–Nelson problem: how many colors are needed to color the plane so that no two points at unit distance apart have the same color? From Gonthier
Decision problem (1,261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
decision problem is a computational problem that can be posed as a yes–no question based on the given input values. An example of a decision problem is deciding
Algorithm (6,769 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
produce the answer in a finite number of steps... a machine which will then solve any problem of the set with no human intervention beyond inserting the question
Problem of induction (4,423 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
from the observed to the unobserved are known as "inductive inferences". David Hume, who first formulated the problem in 1739, argued that there is no non-circular
Synoptic Gospels (4,240 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
relationship—the synoptic problem—has been a topic of debate for centuries and has been described as "the most fascinating literary enigma of all time". While no conclusive
Undecidable problem (1,921 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
problem is a decision problem for which it is proved to be impossible to construct an algorithm that always leads to a correct yes-or-no answer. The halting
Philosophy of mind (12,162 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
philosophy that deals with the nature of the mind and its relation to the body and the external world. The mind–body problem is a paradigmatic issue in
Wicked problem (3,686 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and "wicked" denotes resistance to
Boolean satisfiability problem (5,045 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In logic and computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (sometimes called propositional satisfiability problem and abbreviated SATISFIABILITY
NP (complexity) (2,784 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
class used to classify decision problems. NP is the set of decision problems for which the problem instances, where the answer is "yes", have proofs verifiable
Problem gambling (7,213 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problem gambling, ludopathy, or ludomania is repetitive gambling behavior despite harm and negative consequences. Problem gambling may be diagnosed as
Problem solving (9,997 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from
Graph coloring (8,446 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
share a boundary have the same color. Vertex coloring is often used to introduce graph coloring problems, since other coloring problems can be transformed
Mind–body problem (7,754 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The mind–body problem is a philosophical problem concerning the relationship between thought and consciousness in the human mind and body. It addresses
Discrete logarithm (2,506 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
However, no efficient method is known for computing them in general. In cryptography, the computational complexity of the discrete logarithm problem, along
Chess problem (4,299 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
with chess problems. This article uses algebraic notation to describe chess moves. The term chess problem is not sharply defined: there is no clear demarcation
List of philosophical problems (6,671 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of some of the major problems in philosophy. A counterfactual statement is a conditional statement with a false antecedent. For example, the statement
Morgan Wallen (6,367 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
announced his fourth studio album, titled I'm the Problem, alongside a tour of the same name, and the release of the title track, which was previously teased
Birthday problem (7,158 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theory, the birthday problem asks for the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, at least two will share the same birthday. The birthday
Continuum hypothesis (4,061 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hilbert's 23 problems presented in 1900. The answer to this problem is independent of ZFC, so that either the continuum hypothesis or its negation can
Hard problem of consciousness (12,602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In the philosophy of mind, the hard problem of consciousness is to explain why and how humans and other organisms have qualia, phenomenal consciousness
Demarcation problem (3,878 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and epistemology, the demarcation problem is the question of how to distinguish between science and non-science. It also examines the boundaries between
Problem of Hell (6,752 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The problem of Hell is an ethical problem in the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam, in which the existence of Hell or Jahannam for the punishment
Cosmic inflation (12,602 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
avoid the initial conditions problem by proposing models for an eternally inflating universe with no origin. These models propose that while the Universe
Integer factorization (2,983 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in computer science Can integer factorization be solved in polynomial time on a classical computer? More unsolved problems in computer
Eight queens puzzle (3,791 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten each other; thus, a solution requires
Problem (Ariana Grande song) (10,156 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
"Problem" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande, featuring Australian rapper Iggy Azalea. It was released by Republic Records on April 28, 2014 as
Minimum spanning tree (5,460 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
such that no spanning tree outside the subset has smaller weight. (Note that this problem is unrelated to the k-minimum spanning tree.) The Euclidean
Linear programming (6,690 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
problems, "stalling" occurs: many pivots are made with no increase in the objective function. In rare practical problems, the usual versions of the simplex
Shortest path problem (4,764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
graph theory, the shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path between two vertices (or nodes) in a graph such that the sum of the weights of its
Is–ought problem (3,850 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The is–ought problem, as articulated by the Scottish philosopher and historian David Hume, arises when one makes claims about what ought to be that are
NP-hardness (1,119 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
computational complexity theory, a computational problem H is called NP-hard if, for every problem L which can be solved in non-deterministic polynomial-time
Problem of other minds (960 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The problem of other minds is a philosophical problem traditionally stated as the following epistemological question: "Given that I can only observe the
Glossary of chess problems (3,389 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
noticed immediately, however. aristocrat A problem in which no pawns are in the initial position. Babson task A problem in which black promotion defences to
Mathematical optimization (6,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
found. They can include constrained problems and multimodal problems. An optimization problem can be represented in the following way: Given: a function
NP-hardness (1,119 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
computational complexity theory, a computational problem H is called NP-hard if, for every problem L which can be solved in non-deterministic polynomial-time
Anton Bruckner (7,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Symphony No. 8/2, C minor, 1890 version. Edited by Leopold Nowak. New York: Eulenburg, 1994. Cooke, Deryck (1969), "The Bruckner Problem Simplified", The Musical
Boundary value problem (1,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In the study of differential equations, a boundary-value problem is a differential equation subjected to constraints called boundary conditions. A solution
Millennium Prize Problems (2,626 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
prize for the first correct solution to each problem. The Clay Mathematics Institute officially designated the title Millennium Problem for the seven unsolved
No Problem (Chance the Rapper song) (642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
"No Problem" is a song by American rapper Chance the Rapper featuring fellow American rappers Lil Wayne and 2 Chainz. The track, produced by Chance himself
Problem of other minds (960 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The problem of other minds is a philosophical problem traditionally stated as the following epistemological question: "Given that I can only observe the
Catch-22 (logic) (2,295 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Self-reference Social trap Strange loop Vicious circle Wicked problem Zugzwang Largest Idioms Dictionary, The Idioms. "Catch 22 meaning". Theidioms.com. Retrieved
Graph theory (6,237 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
problem Minimum spanning tree Route inspection problem (also called the "Chinese postman problem") Seven bridges of Königsberg Shortest path problem Steiner
Free will (25,415 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
concerns, sharing only the common feature of not finding the possibility of determinism a threat to the possibility of free will. The problem of free will has
David Hilbert (7,093 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
either. ... The true reason why [no-one] has succeeded in finding an unsolvable problem is, in my opinion, that there is no unsolvable problem. In contrast
Calculus of variations (9,524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
functionals may be found using the Euler–Lagrange equation of the calculus of variations. A simple example of such a problem is to find the curve of shortest length
Independent set (graph theory) (3,561 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
problem of finding such a set is called the maximum independent set problem. It is a strongly NP-hard problem. As such, it is unlikely that there exists
Hilbert's problems (3,677 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hilbert's problems are 23 problems in mathematics published by German mathematician David Hilbert in 1900. They were all unsolved at the time, and several
Poincaré conjecture (5,324 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hamilton's program of using the Ricci flow to solve the problem. By developing a number of new techniques and results in the theory of Ricci flow, Grigori
The Problem Solverz (2,957 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Problem Solverz is an American animated television series created by Ben Jones for Cartoon Network. It follows Alfe, Roba, and Horace; a group of
Convex optimization (3,166 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
optimization is a subfield of mathematical optimization that studies the problem of minimizing convex functions over convex sets (or, equivalently, maximizing
Knapsack problem (7,770 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The knapsack problem is the following problem in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine which items
Geodesy (4,261 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
are two main problems: First geodetic problem (also known as direct or forward geodetic problem): given the coordinates of a point and the directional
Free-rider problem (4,823 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In economics, the free-rider problem is a type of market failure that occurs when those who benefit from resources, public goods and common pool resources
Panpsychism (9,735 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
interest in panpsychism in the 21st century because it addresses the hard problem directly. The term panpsychism comes from the Greek pan (πᾶν: "all, everything
Invariant subspace problem (2,299 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In the field of mathematics known as functional analysis, the invariant subspace problem is a partially unresolved problem asking whether every bounded
Cyprus problem (17,657 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Cyprus problem, also known as the Cyprus conflict, Cyprus issue, Cyprus dispute, or Cyprus question, is an ongoing dispute between the Greek Cypriot
Online gambling (12,417 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to gambling, these chemicals are no longer released by other pleasurable things. Online gambling becomes a problem when it causes stress, anxiety and
Seven Bridges of Königsberg (1,789 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
are explicitly unacceptable. Euler proved that the problem has no solution. The difficulty he faced was the development of a suitable technique of analysis
Root cause analysis (3,905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
root cause analysis (RCA) is a method of problem solving used for identifying the root causes of faults or problems. It is widely used in IT operations, manufacturing
Measurement problem (2,441 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In quantum mechanics, the measurement problem is the problem of definite outcomes: quantum systems have superpositions but quantum measurements only give
Campaign for the neologism "santorum" (3,359 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
unhealthy culture. Santorum said that, while he had no problem with homosexuality, he did have a problem with homosexual acts, "as I would with acts of other
Time formatting and storage bugs (7,004 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
arithmetic overflow, but can also be the result of other issues. The best-known consequence of this type is the Y2K problem, but many other milestone dates
Ant colony optimization algorithms (9,487 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
operations research, the ant colony optimization algorithm (ACO) is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems that can be reduced to
Chicken or the egg (1,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
addressing the problem of origins and first cause. Aristotle, writing in the fourth century BCE, concluded that this was an infinite sequence, with no true
Conjecture (3,042 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
status of the P versus NP problem, Communications of the ACM 52 (2009), no. 9, pp. 78–86. doi:10.1145/1562164.1562186 Richards, Ian (1974). "On the Incompatibility
List of unsolved problems in mathematics (20,026 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the solution to a long-standing problem, and some lists of unsolved problems, such as the Millennium Prize Problems, receive considerable attention.
Confirmation holism (1,102 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
extending Pierre Duhem's problem of underdetermination in physical theory to all knowledge claims. Duhem's idea was, roughly, that no theory of any type can
El Farol Bar problem (1,425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The El Farol bar problem is a problem in game theory. Every Thursday night, a fixed population want to go have fun at the El Farol Bar, unless it's too
Embarrassingly parallel (992 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
needed to split the problem into a number of parallel tasks. This is due to minimal or no dependency upon communication between the parallel tasks, or
Big Bang (15,947 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
radiation, and large-scale structure. The uniformity of the universe, known as the horizon and flatness problems, is explained through cosmic inflation:
Windows Error Reporting (1,599 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
have resulted in silent program termination with no error report. A new Control Panel applet, "Problem Reports and Solutions" was also introduced, keeping
Elitzur–Vaidman bomb tester (3,762 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2023-09-24). "Exploring Quantum Comprehension Through the Elitzur-Vaidman Bomb Testing Problem". Brazilian Journal of Physics. 53 (6): 152. doi:10
Time complexity (5,003 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
solutions but no known polynomial time solution include the planted clique problem in which the goal is to find a large clique in the union of a clique
Daylight saving time (12,832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
time being the permanent method of keeping time. Advocates cite the same advantages as normal DST without the problems associated with the twice-yearly
The International Jew (1,767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
beginning with The International Jew: The World's Problem, published on May 22, 1920. At the beginning of 1920, Ford's personal newspaper, The Dearborn Independent
Expressivism (1,517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
or factual judgment.[citation needed] The Frege–Geach problem – named for Peter Geach, who developed it from the writings of Gottlob Frege – claims that
Finite element method (7,940 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
arising in engineering and mathematical modeling. Typical problem areas of interest include the traditional fields of structural analysis, heat transfer
Jewish question (2,990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
whether the problem of the Jewish question had more to do with the problems posed by the German Jews' opponents or vice versa: the problem posed by the existence
Dining philosophers problem (2,733 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In computer science, the dining philosophers problem is an example problem often used in concurrent algorithm design to illustrate synchronization issues
Theodicy (9,767 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"god" and δίκη dikē, "justice") is an argument that attempts to resolve the problem of evil that arises when all power and all goodness are simultaneously
Tangent (4,113 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
explicitly. The question of finding the tangent line to a graph, or the tangent line problem, was one of the central questions leading to the development
Peg + Cat (2,312 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
television series based on the children's picture book "The Chicken Problem", which was published in 2012. The series, which featured the voice acting of Hayley
Circular reasoning (586 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The problem of circular reasoning has been noted in Western philosophy at least as far back as the Pyrrhonist philosopher Agrippa who includes the problem
Scunthorpe problem (3,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring)
Diophantine equation (4,809 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
number is the dth power of another rational number). A witness of the difficulty of the problem is Fermat's Last Theorem (for d > 2, there is no integer
Scunthorpe problem (3,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring)
Least squares (5,601 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
minimized. The most important application is in data fitting. When the problem has substantial uncertainties in the independent variable (the x variable)
Karma (12,606 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
rebirth, and the problem of evil, Philosophy East & West, Vol. 55, No. 1, pp. 15–32 Chadha and Trakakis (2007), Karma and the Problem of Evil: A Response
Problem of Apollonius (12,269 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In Euclidean plane geometry, Apollonius's problem is to construct circles that are tangent to three given circles in a plane (Figure 1). Apollonius of
Ad hoc (595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to deal with a particular problem, the tendency of which has given rise to the noun adhocism. This concept highlights the flexibility and adaptability
Motion planning (3,119 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
known as the navigation problem or the piano mover's problem) is a computational problem to find a sequence of valid configurations that moves the object
Deutsch–Jozsa algorithm (2,191 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
deterministic classical algorithm. It is a black box problem that can be solved efficiently by a quantum computer with no error, whereas a deterministic classical
Fermi problem (1,885 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A Fermi problem (or Fermi question, Fermi quiz), also known as an order-of-magnitude problem, is an estimation problem in physics or engineering education
Packing problems (2,676 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Packing problems are a class of optimization problems in mathematics that involve attempting to pack objects together into containers. The goal is to either
Spatial analysis (10,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
resolved, but form the basis for current research. The most fundamental of these is the problem of defining the spatial location of the entities being studied
Problem of universals (4,943 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The problem of universals is an ancient question from metaphysics that has inspired a range of philosophical topics and disputes: "Should the properties
N-body problem (8,730 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In physics, the n-body problem is the problem of predicting the individual motions of a group of celestial objects interacting with each other gravitationally
Puzzle (1,187 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A puzzle is a game, problem, or toy that tests a person's ingenuity or knowledge. In a puzzle, the solver is expected to put pieces together (or take them
Structuralism (philosophy of science) (2,539 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
make the success of science seem miraculous, i.e., it puts forward a no-miracles argument. The so-called Newman problem (also Newman's problem, Newman
Mind (17,702 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
dispositions to engage in observable behavior. The mind–body problem is the challenge of explaining the relation between matter and mind. Traditionally
Trolley problem (4,232 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics, psychology, and artificial intelligence involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether
Economic calculation problem (6,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The economic calculation problem (ECP) is a criticism of using central economic planning as a substitute for market-based allocation of the factors of
Einstein problem (1,155 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
extension of the second part of Hilbert's eighteenth problem, which asks for a single polyhedron that tiles Euclidean 3-space, but such that no tessellation
Doubling the cube (2,081 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient: 9  geometric problem. Given the edge of a cube, the problem requires the construction
Heesch's problem (899 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
can surround it with no overlaps and no gaps. Heesch's problem is the problem of determining the set of numbers that can be Heesch numbers. Both are named
Gettier problem (6,288 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Gettier problem, in the field of epistemology, is a landmark philosophical problem concerning the understanding of descriptive knowledge. Attributed
Entscheidungsproblem (2,642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In mathematics and computer science, the Entscheidungsproblem (German for 'decision problem'; pronounced [ɛntˈʃaɪ̯dʊŋspʁoˌbleːm]) is a challenge posed
Falsifiability (19,536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
logically falsify the claim. Popper proposed falsifiability as the cornerstone solution to both the problem of induction and the problem of demarcation.
RSA cryptosystem (7,787 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
known as the RSA problem. Whether it is as difficult as the factoring problem is an open question. There are no published methods to defeat the system if
Comenius University (1,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to ponder Znám's problem in modern mathematics Miroslav Lajcak – diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly for the 72nd session Zuzana
Principal–agent problem (9,357 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The principal–agent problem refers to the conflict in interests and priorities that arises when one person or entity (the "agent") takes actions on behalf
Artificial intelligence (28,672 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
refers to the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving
Wason selection task (1,988 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Wason selection task (or four-card problem) is a logic puzzle devised by Peter Cathcart Wason in 1966. It is one of the most famous tasks in the study
Trial and error (1,928 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
fundamental method of problem-solving characterized by repeated, varied attempts which are continued until success, or until the practicer stops trying
The Problem with Apu (2,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Problem with Apu is a 2017 American documentary film written by and starring comedian Hari Kondabolu and produced and directed by Michael Melamedoff
Hilbert's tenth problem (3,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
By contrast, the Diophantine equation x 2 + y 2 + 1 = 0 {\displaystyle x^{2}+y^{2}+1=0} has no such solution. Hilbert's tenth problem has been solved
Design thinking (4,520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
: 39  In the 2010s, the category of super wicked global problems emerged as well. Wicked problems have features such as no definitive formulation, no true/false
Flow network (3,081 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
solve problems that can be reduced to a flow network, including survey design, airline scheduling, image segmentation, and the matching problem. A network
Existence of God (22,243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Belief." The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 67, no. 14, 1970, pp. 471–476. Draper, Paul. "The Problem of the Hiddenness of God and the Problem of Evil."
Dynamic programming (9,283 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
between the value of the larger problem and the values of the sub-problems. In the optimization literature this relationship is called the Bellman equation
Complexity class (10,382 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the answer to the decision problem is "yes" and "rejects" if the answer is "no". While some problems cannot easily be expressed as decision problems,
3 Body Problem (TV series) (3,733 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
3 Body Problem is an American science fiction television series created by David Benioff, D. B. Weiss and Alexander Woo. The third streaming adaptation
Product design (1,954 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is where the key issue of the matter is defined. The conditions of the problem become objectives, and restraints on the situation become the parameters
Prisoner's dilemma (9,520 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
needed] The 2008 film The Dark Knight includes a scene loosely based on the problem in which the Joker rigs two ferries, one containing prisoners and the other
Tessellation (6,057 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
tessellation or tiling is the covering of a surface, often a plane, using one or more geometric shapes, called tiles, with no overlaps and no gaps. In mathematics
Hierarchy problem (3,470 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theoretical physics, the hierarchy problem is the problem concerning the large discrepancy between aspects of the weak force and gravity. There is no scientific
Fleet problem (5,300 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Pacific Fleet around 2016. The first twenty-one Fleet Problems — labeled by Navy leadership as Fleet Problem I through Fleet Problem XXI — were conducted between
Genetic algorithm (8,045 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
objective function in the optimization problem being solved. The more fit individuals are stochastically selected from the current population, and each individual's
Gray goo (1,965 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
there is no need to build anything that even resembles a potential runaway replicator. This would avoid the problem entirely. In a paper in the journal
Predation problem (4,019 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The predation problem or predation argument refers to the consideration of the harms experienced by animals due to predation as a moral problem, that
Dark matter (15,089 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in physics What is dark matter? How was it generated? More unsolved problems in physics In astronomy, dark matter is an invisible and
Evolutionary algorithm (4,553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
elements of the biological evolution in a computer algorithm in order to solve “difficult” problems, at least approximately, for which no exact or satisfactory
Sorting algorithm (6,537 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
From the beginning of computing, the sorting problem has attracted a great deal of research, perhaps due to the complexity of solving it efficiently despite
Philosophy of computer science (909 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
computer scientists believe that P ≠ NP. Apart from the reason that after decades of studying these problems no one has been able to find a polynomial-time algorithm
Two envelopes problem (8,302 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The two envelopes problem, also known as the exchange paradox, is a paradox in probability theory. It is of special interest in decision theory and for
Vibration (7,227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
over the range of motion of interest. Hence, the solution to the problem with a square wave is summing the predicted vibration from each one of the harmonic
Marilyn vos Savant (3,125 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and answers questions on various subjects, and which popularized the Monty Hall problem in 1990. Marilyn vos Savant was born Marilyn Mach on August 11,
Sorting algorithm (6,537 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
From the beginning of computing, the sorting problem has attracted a great deal of research, perhaps due to the complexity of solving it efficiently despite
Evolutionary algorithm (4,553 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
elements of the biological evolution in a computer algorithm in order to solve “difficult” problems, at least approximately, for which no exact or satisfactory
Heuristic (8,753 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A heuristic or heuristic technique (problem solving, mental shortcut, rule of thumb) is any approach to problem solving that employs a pragmatic method
Publication bias (3,864 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"filed away" and go no further than the researchers' file drawers, leading to a bias in published research. The term "file drawer problem" was coined by psychologist
Endianness (4,903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
network order; the ntohs and ntohl functions convert from network to host order. These functions may be a no-op on a big-endian system. While the high-level
Goldbach's conjecture (3,720 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the oldest and best-known unsolved problems in number theory and all of mathematics. It states that every even natural number greater than 2 is the sum
Terence Tao (6,687 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
J. Amer. Math. Soc. 20 (2007), no. 3, 753–798. Lemarié-Rieusset, Pierre Gilles (2016). The Navier–Stokes problem in the 21st century. Boca Raton, FL: CRC
Riemann hypothesis (16,742 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in mathematics Do all non-trivial zeroes of the Riemann zeta function have a real part of one half? More unsolved problems in mathematics
Multiple comparisons problem (2,558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In statistics, the multiple comparisons, multiplicity or multiple testing problem occurs when one considers a set of statistical inferences simultaneously
Elliptic-curve cryptography (4,676 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the elliptic curve, measured by the total number of discrete integer pairs satisfying the curve equation, determines the difficulty of the problem. The
Joke chess problem (1,258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A joke chess problem is a puzzle in chess that uses humor as an element. Although most chess problems, like other creative forms, are appreciated for serious
Faint blue galaxy (645 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
were first noticed in the 1970s, posing a problem for then-current theories of galaxy formation. FBGs tend to be found in the peripheries of galaxy clusters
Creation science (11,153 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cosmologies is that the accepted distances in the Universe require millions or billions of years for light to travel to Earth (the "starlight problem"). An older
Fair cake-cutting (4,013 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fair cake-cutting is a kind of fair division problem. The problem involves a heterogeneous resource, such as a cake with different toppings, that is assumed
Combinatorial optimization (1,847 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
travelling salesman problem ("TSP"), the minimum spanning tree problem ("MST"), and the knapsack problem. In many such problems, such as the ones previously
Nearest neighbor search (3,341 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
neighbor search (NNS), as a form of proximity search, is the optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most similar)
Brute-force search (1,974 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
specific to the problem class. For example, in the eight queens problem the challenge is to place eight queens on a standard chessboard so that no queen attacks
Untitled Korn album (1,783 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Slipknot would tour with Korn on the Family Values Tour, along with the Bitch We Have a Problem Tour. When premiering the single "Evolution" on KROQ on May
Clique problem (9,905 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In computer science, the clique problem is the computational problem of finding cliques (subsets of vertices, all adjacent to each other, also called
Knight's tour (2,318 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
instance of the Hamiltonian cycle problem. Unlike the general Hamiltonian path problem, the knight's tour problem can be solved in linear time. The earliest
Classification (495 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
depends greatly on the characteristics of the data to be classified. There is no single classifier that works best on all given problems (a phenomenon that
Faster-than-light (7,979 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
special relativity or creates problems with causality, and thus neither qualifies as faster-than-light as described here. In the following examples, certain
Squaring the circle (4,922 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Squaring the circle is a problem in geometry first proposed in Greek mathematics. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the area of a given
Byzantine fault (4,058 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
whether a system component has failed. The term takes its name from an allegory, the "Byzantine generals problem", developed to describe a situation in
Stokes problem (1,984 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
{\displaystyle \nu } is the kinematic viscosity. The pressure gradient does not enter into the problem. The initial, no-slip condition on the wall is u ( 0 ,
Knot theory (6,298 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
fundamental problem in knot theory is determining when two descriptions represent the same knot. A complete algorithmic solution to this problem exists, which
The Problem with Jon Stewart (1,092 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Problem with Jon Stewart is an American current affairs television series hosted by Jon Stewart on Apple TV+. Each episode focuses on a single issue
Stable matching problem (2,544 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the stable matching problem is the problem of finding a stable matching between two equally sized sets
Squaring the square (1,680 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Squaring the square is the problem of tiling an integral square using only other integral squares. (An integral square is a square whose sides have integer
Matching (graph theory) (2,938 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
network flow problem. Given a graph G = (V, E), a matching M in G is a set of pairwise non-adjacent edges, none of which are loops; that is, no two edges
Kidney failure (3,383 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(ESRD), is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal
Social issue (5,654 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A social issue is a problem that affects many people within a society. It is a group of common problems in present-day society that many people strive
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (3,643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
would often introduce "Problem Child" as being about Angus. "Ain't No Fun (Waiting 'Round to be a Millionaire)" is one of the few AC/DC songs that has
Philosophical zombie (4,577 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is important in the context of the mind-evolution problem. A zombie universe is identical to our world in all physical ways, except no being in it has
RSA problem (681 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In cryptography, the RSA problem summarizes the task of performing an RSA private-key operation given only the public key. The RSA algorithm raises a
Proof of impossibility (3,915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
an impossibility theorem is a theorem that demonstrates a problem or general set of problems cannot be solved. These are also known as proofs of impossibility
Intentionality (5,117 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
intentionality has been the problem of intentional inexistence: to determine the ontological status of the entities which are the objects of intentional
Branch and bound (2,432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
optimization problems by breaking them down into smaller sub-problems and using a bounding function to eliminate sub-problems that cannot contain the optimal
Hilbert's sixteenth problem (1,243 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
list of 23 problems in mathematics. The original problem was posed as the Problem of the topology of algebraic curves and surfaces (Problem der Topologie
Gödel's incompleteness theorems (12,134 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is no algorithm to solve the halting problem. The incompleteness theorems apply to formal systems that are of sufficient complexity to express the basic
Software design pattern (3,180 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
design pattern is a general, reusable solution to a commonly occurring problem in many contexts in software design. A design pattern is not a rigid structure
Post-quantum cryptography (6,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
algorithms rely on the difficulty of one of three mathematical problems: the integer factorization problem, the discrete logarithm problem or the elliptic-curve
Economic lot scheduling problem (1,876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The economic lot scheduling problem (ELSP) is a problem in operations management and inventory theory that has been studied by many researchers for more
Open problem (408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
not yet been solved (i.e., no solution for it is known). In the history of science, some of these supposed open problems were "solved" by means of showing
Creativity (19,533 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
are no differences in the mechanisms underlying creativity from those used in normal problem solving, and in normal problem solving there is no need
The Feminine Mystique (4,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
their feelings. The Feminine Mystique begins with an introduction describing what Friedan called "the problem that has no name"—the widespread unhappiness
Poisson's equation (2,371 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
universal gravitation. Many problems in electrostatics are governed by the Poisson equation, which relates the electric potential φ to the free charge density
Creativity (19,533 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
are no differences in the mechanisms underlying creativity from those used in normal problem solving, and in normal problem solving there is no need
The Feminine Mystique (4,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
their feelings. The Feminine Mystique begins with an introduction describing what Friedan called "the problem that has no name"—the widespread unhappiness
Poisson's equation (2,371 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
universal gravitation. Many problems in electrostatics are governed by the Poisson equation, which relates the electric potential φ to the free charge density
Collingridge dilemma (760 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
double-bind problem: An information problem: impacts cannot be easily predicted until the technology is extensively developed and widely used. A power problem: control
Opinion poll (9,522 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the original on 2013-01-31. Retrieved 2008-11-04. Silver, Nate (2008-07-22). "The Cellphone Problem, Revisited". FiveThirtyEight. Archived from the original
Optimization problem (672 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
economics, an optimization problem is the problem of finding the best solution from all feasible solutions. Optimization problems can be divided into two
Three utilities problem (2,756 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The three utilities problem, also known as water, gas and electricity, is a mathematical puzzle that asks for non-crossing connections to be drawn between
The Three-Body Problem (novel) (3,888 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
The Three-Body Problem (Chinese: 三体; lit. 'three body') is a 2008 novel by the Chinese hard science fiction author Liu Cixin. It is the first novel in
Key exchange (1,397 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
property, both will need the other's public key. Key exchange is done either in-band or out-of-band. The key exchange problem describes ways to exchange
Coastline paradox (2,940 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
size. The problem is fundamentally different from the measurement of other, simpler edges. It is possible, for example, to accurately measure the length
Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas (1,031 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Wyatt Cenac's Problem Areas is an American documentary television series hosted by Wyatt Cenac. It premiered on April 13, 2018, on HBO. The series is executive
Epiphenomenalism (2,831 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Epiphenomenalism is a position in the philosophy of mind on the mind–body problem. It holds that subjective mental events are completely dependent for
Fair division (2,964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Fair division is the problem in game theory of dividing a set of resources among several people who have an entitlement to them so that each person receives
Action (philosophy) (4,898 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
or irrational depending on the reason for which they are performed. The problem of responsibility is closely related to the philosophy of actions since
Two-body problem in general relativity (6,716 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The two-body problem in general relativity (or relativistic two-body problem) is the determination of the motion and gravitational field of two bodies
Simon's problem (3,247 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
computational complexity theory and quantum computing, Simon's problem is a computational problem that is proven to be solved exponentially faster on a quantum
Infinite regress (3,336 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
infinite regress is responsible for the theory in question being implausible or for its failure to solve the problem it was formulated to solve. Traditionally
Vertex cover (2,556 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of every edge of the graph. In computer science, the problem of finding a minimum vertex cover is a classical optimization problem. It is NP-hard, so
Fermat's Last Theorem (11,739 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
formulation of the problem. Equivalent statement 2: xn + yn = zn, where integer n ≥ 3, has no non-trivial solutions x, y, z ∈ Q. This is because the exponents
Wang tile (1,500 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
domino sets. In 1966, Berger solved the domino problem in the negative. He proved that no algorithm for the problem can exist, by showing how to translate
Decision-making (8,884 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
published under the label problem solving, particularly in European psychological research. Decision-making can be regarded as a problem-solving activity
Genetic disorder (3,613 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A genetic disorder is a health problem caused by one or more abnormalities in the genome. It can be caused by a mutation in a single gene (monogenic) or
Binding problem (6,825 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
perception. It is considered a "problem" because no complete model exists. The binding problem can be subdivided into the four areas of perception, neuroscience
Brainstorming (4,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the term "brainstorm sessions", taking the concept after the use of "the brain to storm a problem". During the period when Osborn made his concept, he
Underdetermination (1,732 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
rivals. A more general response from the scientific realist is to argue that underdetermination is no special problem for science, because, as indicated
Consciousness (20,003 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
fully be known from the inside, subjectively. The problem of other minds is a philosophical problem traditionally stated as the following epistemological
Benny Morris (6,346 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
book The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947–1948 which, based on then recently declassified Israeli archives, demonstrated that the 1948 exodus
Suslin's problem (781 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
continuum? The original statement of Suslin's problem from (Suslin 1920) Suslin's problem asks: Given a non-empty totally ordered set R with the four properties
Perturbation theory (2,959 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
a problem, by starting from the exact solution of a related, simpler problem. A critical feature of the technique is a middle step that breaks the problem
All's Well That Ends Well (2,211 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
with possible dates ranging from 1598 to 1608. The play is considered one of Shakespeare's "problem plays", a play that poses complex ethical dilemmas
Newcomb's paradox (2,281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
also known as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom is able to predict the future. Newcomb's paradox
Satisfiability (1,500 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
semi-decidable problem by Gödel's completeness theorem. If satisfiability were also a semi-decidable problem, then the problem of the existence of counter-models
Celestial mechanics (2,554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Poincaré showed that the three-body problem is not integrable. In other words, the general solution of the three-body problem can not be expressed in
Socratic problem (2,812 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In historical scholarship, the Socratic problem (also called Socratic question) concerns attempts at reconstructing a historical and philosophical image
♯P-complete (849 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the other problem to inputs of the given problem and from outputs of the given problem to outputs of the other problem, allowing the other problem to
Co-NP (964 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
yes-instance for the original NP problem becomes a no-instance for its complement, and vice versa. An example of an NP-complete problem is the Boolean satisfiability
Nominalism (4,422 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
pillars, snakes, and bananas). Nominalism is primarily a position on the problem of universals. It is opposed to realist philosophies, such as Platonic
Polynomial-time reduction (1,472 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the first problem is no more difficult than the second one, because whenever an efficient algorithm exists for the second problem, one exists for the
Feasible region (1,110 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
solution space is the set of all possible points (sets of values of the choice variables) of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's constraints
K-nearest neighbors algorithm (4,333 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
overcome this problem is to weight the classification, taking into account the distance from the test point to each of its k nearest neighbors. The class (or
Professor Moriarty (3,448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
appears in the short story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1893. He also plays a role in the final
Problem Solvers Caucus (3,395 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
organization No Labels as early as 2014. It is co-chaired by Tom Suozzi (D-NY) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) as of 2025[update]. The Problem Solvers Caucus
Sturm–Liouville theory (4,722 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and its applications, a Sturm–Liouville problem is a second-order linear ordinary differential equation of the form d d x [ p ( x ) d y d x ] + q ( x )
Aggregation problem (1,184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
there occur various problems that are inherent in the formulations that use aggregated variables. The aggregation problem is the problem of finding a valid
Problem of the criterion (392 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In the field of epistemology, the problem of the criterion is an issue regarding the starting point of knowledge. This is a separate and more fundamental
Backtracking (1,986 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
solutions to some computational problems, notably constraint satisfaction problems, that incrementally builds candidates to the solutions, and abandons a candidate
Associative array (2,802 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
operations. The dictionary problem is the classic problem of designing efficient data structures that implement associative arrays. The two major solutions
Curve fitting (2,144 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
2D data points. The method elegantly transforms the ordinarily non-linear problem into a linear problem that can be solved without using iterative numerical
Metaheuristic (4,643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
combinatorial optimization, there are many problems that belong to the class of NP-complete problems and thus can no longer be solved exactly in an acceptable
Computational problem (984 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
computer science, a computational problem is one that asks for a solution in terms of an algorithm. For example, the problem of factoring "Given a positive
Nonlinear programming (1,483 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
programming (NLP) is the process of solving an optimization problem where some of the constraints are not linear equalities or the objective function is
Natural evil (1,881 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
rebuttal to the free will defense against the theological problem of evil. The argument goes that the free will defense can only justify the presence of
Associative array (2,802 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
operations. The dictionary problem is the classic problem of designing efficient data structures that implement associative arrays. The two major solutions
Underdetermination (1,732 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
rivals. A more general response from the scientific realist is to argue that underdetermination is no special problem for science, because, as indicated
Shandong Problem (952 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Shandong Problem or Shandong Question (simplified Chinese: 山东问题; traditional Chinese: 山東問題; pinyin: Shāndōng wèntí; Japanese: 山東問題, romanized: Santō
Wireless network (3,598 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
can cause the signal to cancel out each other at certain locations, and to be stronger in other places (upfade). The hidden node problem occurs in some
Trapdoor function (1,316 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
computers can guess all of the possible answers within a second – but this sample problem could be improved by using the product of two much larger primes
Optimal control (4,734 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
deals with the problem of finding a control law for a given system such that a certain optimality criterion is achieved. A control problem includes a
Experience (10,684 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
experience is involved in the mind–body problem and the hard problem of consciousness, both of which try to explain the relation between matter and
Graph automorphism (1,343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The easier problem of testing whether a graph has any symmetries (nontrivial automorphisms), known as the graph automorphism problem, also has no known
Celestial mechanics (2,554 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Poincaré showed that the three-body problem is not integrable. In other words, the general solution of the three-body problem can not be expressed in
Inverse problem (9,073 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
An inverse problem in science is the process of calculating from a set of observations the causal factors that produced them: for example, calculating
Pirate game (1,328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
doomed no matter what division they propose. Creative problem solving Lateral thinking Bruce Talbot Coram (1998). Robert E. Goodin (ed.). The Theory of
Subject-matter expert (1,444 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
software organizations to produce and deliver more content but with little to no formal revision control for content releases (i.e. a living document). In
Troubleshooting (2,477 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
form of problem solving, often applied to repair failed products or processes on a machine or a system. It is a logical, systematic search for the source
Nature versus nurture (7,927 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
was obviously negative to the question, the phrase has often been cited as an early quest into the nature versus nurture problem. John Locke's An Essay Concerning
Problem of future contingents (2,354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
statements about states of affairs in the future that are contingent: neither necessarily true nor necessarily false. The problem of future contingents seems to
Longest common subsequence (4,355 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
positions within the original sequences. The problem of computing longest common subsequences is a classic computer science problem, the basis of data comparison
Metaheuristic (4,643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
combinatorial optimization, there are many problems that belong to the class of NP-complete problems and thus can no longer be solved exactly in an acceptable
Professor Moriarty (3,448 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
appears in the short story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", first published in The Strand Magazine in December 1893. He also plays a role in the final
Structure (mathematical logic) (5,097 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
show that no such homomorphism exists. Every constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) has a translation into the homomorphism problem. Therefore, the complexity
Omnibenevolence (1,120 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
as a result of the problem of evil. However, some philosophers, such as Alvin Plantinga, argue the plausibility of co-existence. The word omnibenevolence
Aggregation problem (1,184 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
there occur various problems that are inherent in the formulations that use aggregated variables. The aggregation problem is the problem of finding a valid
Lateral thinking (1,688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of solving problems using an indirect and creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious. Synonymous to thinking outside the box, it involves
Problem of the criterion (392 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In the field of epistemology, the problem of the criterion is an issue regarding the starting point of knowledge. This is a separate and more fundamental
Good Will Hunting (5,217 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theory mathematics problem on a blackboard as a challenge for his graduate students, Will solves the problem anonymously, stunning both the students and Lambeau
Insight (3,892 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
understanding how to solve a difficult problem, is sometimes called by the German word Aha-Erlebnis. The term was coined by the German psychologist and theoretical
Heuristic (computer science) (1,364 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
heuristic (from Greek εὑρίσκω "I find, discover") is a technique designed for problem solving more quickly when classic methods are too slow for finding an exact
Wild Animal Ethics (1,107 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Wild Animal Ethics: The Moral and Political Problem of Wild Animal Suffering is a 2020 book by the philosopher Kyle Johannsen. It examines whether humans
Outline of thought (5,081 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
of the world. Thinking is manipulating information, as when we form concepts, engage in problem solving, reason and make decisions. Thought, the act
Inductive reasoning (8,642 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
first chapter is devoted to the problem of induction—opens, "I think I have solved a major philosophical problem: the problem of induction". In Popper's
Cold dark matter (2,575 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
revealing a highly significant problem that is unlikely to be solved by improving the resolution of the simulations. The high bulgeless fraction was nearly
Sierpiński number (817 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in mathematics Is 78,557 the smallest Sierpiński number? More unsolved problems in mathematics The Sierpiński problem asks for the value
Consensus (computer science) (4,770 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
A fundamental problem in distributed computing and multi-agent systems is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes
Free logic (973 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
identical with Pegasus is Pegasus' that something is identical with Pegasus. The problem comes from substituting nondesignating constants for variables: in fact
Regular number (3,277 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
called the harmonic whole numbers. In computer science, regular numbers are often called Hamming numbers, after Richard Hamming, who proposed the problem of
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solve the problem, but in this work he demonstrated methods for constructing Graeco-Latin squares where n is odd or a multiple of 4. Observing that no order
Black swan theory (2,708 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
More technically, in the scientific monograph "Silent Risk", Taleb mathematically defines the black swan problem as "stemming from the use of degenerate
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opened without opening a mine. There is no score, but there is a timer recording the time taken to finish the game. Difficulty can be increased by adding
Augustinian hypothesis (3,418 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Augustinian hypothesis (sometimes referred to as the Augustinian Proposal) is a solution to the synoptic problem, which concerns the origin of the
Quantum complexity theory (3,632 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
selected from the set of all possible input strings. A promise problem is a pair A = ( A yes , A no ) {\displaystyle A=(A_{\text{yes}},A_{\text{no}})} , where
Decidability (logic) (1,889 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
In logic, a true/false decision problem is decidable if there exists an effective method for deriving the correct answer. Zeroth-order logic (propositional
Coincidence (1,366 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
underestimated probability. An example is the birthday problem, which shows that the probability of two persons having the same birthday already exceeds 50% in
Cooperative bargaining (2,002 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
surplus-sharing problems (also called bargaining problem) are faced by management and labor in the division of a firm's profit, by trade partners in the specification
Sphere packing (3,419 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
However, sphere packing problems can be generalised to consider unequal spheres, spaces of other dimensions (where the problem becomes circle packing in
Closed-form expression (1,764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
functions that have a closed form are called elementary functions. The closed-form problem arises when new ways are introduced for specifying mathematical
Tragedy of the commons (15,315 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Andersson, K. (1996). "The Tragedy of the Common Forest: Why the Pacific Northwest Forest Conflict is a 'No Technical Solution' Problem". Oregon Daily Emerald
Bad debt (1,468 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
provisioning. In the United States, bank loans with more than ninety days' arrears become "problem loans". Accounting sources advise that the full amount of
Public policy (7,917 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
divides the policy process into a series of stages, from a notional starting point at which policymakers begin to think about a policy problem to a notional
Uninterpreted function (410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
as equational theories. The satisfiability problem for free theories is solved by syntactic unification; algorithms for the latter are used by interpreters
Public policy (7,917 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
divides the policy process into a series of stages, from a notional starting point at which policymakers begin to think about a policy problem to a notional
Uninterpreted function (410 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
as equational theories. The satisfiability problem for free theories is solved by syntactic unification; algorithms for the latter are used by interpreters
QMA (1,832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
also called the ground state energy of the Hamiltonian. The decision version of the k-local Hamiltonian problem is a type of promise problem and is defined
Path (graph theory) (1,175 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
used to find the shortest paths between all pairs of vertices in weighted directed graphs. The k-path partition problem is the problem of partitioning
Omnipotence paradox (4,754 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
false dilemma, as it neglects the possibility of varying degrees of omnipotence. Some modern approaches to the problem have involved semantic debates
Theory of computation (2,169 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theoretical computer science and mathematics, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with what problems can be solved on a model of computation
Irenaean theodicy (4,990 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Irenaean theodicy is a Christian theodicy (a response to the problem of evil). It defends the probability of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent (all-powerful
Greedy algorithm (1,918 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
any algorithm that follows the problem-solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage. In many problems, a greedy strategy does not
Automated theorem proving (2,933 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and hence the problem is always decidable. Since the proofs generated by automated theorem provers are typically very large, the problem of proof compression
Distributed computing (6,666 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
have a common goal, such as solving a large computational problem; the user then perceives the collection of autonomous processors as a unit. Alternatively
Advice column (2,281 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
reader writes to the media outlet with a problem in the form of a question, and the media outlet provides an answer or response. The responses are written
Computability theory (6,425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
tenth problem has no effective solution; this problem asked whether there is an effective procedure to decide whether a Diophantine equation over the integers
Buffon's needle problem (4,303 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In probability theory, Buffon's needle problem is a question first posed in the 18th century by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon: Suppose we have
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with other markets, such as the labor market. In his 2011 paper, "The Problem of Social Cost: What Problem? A Critique of the Reasoning of A.C. Pigou and
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (18,643 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Nations: Report of the Special Committee on the Problem of Hungary, General Assembly, Official Records, Eleventh Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/3592), New
Lambda-CDM model (10,918 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
et al. (Particle Data Group) (2020). "Cosmological Parameters" (PDF). Prog. Theor. Exp. Phys. 083C01. Ostriker, J. P.; Steinhardt, P. J. (1995). "Cosmic Concordance"
Bin packing problem (6,988 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The bin packing problem is an optimization problem, in which items of different sizes must be packed into a finite number of bins or containers, each of
God's Problem Child (1,279 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problem Child is the 66th solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Willie Nelson. It was released on April 28, 2017, by Legacy Recordings. The
Word problem for groups (4,932 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
especially in the area of abstract algebra known as combinatorial group theory, the word problem for a finitely generated group G {\displaystyle G} is the algorithmic
RE (complexity) (938 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
machine in a finite amount of time. Informally, it means that if the answer to a problem instance is 'yes', then there is some procedure that takes finite
Psychophysical parallelism (1,430 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Cambridge University Press. p. 762. Broad 1925, Chapter III: The Traditional Problem of Body and Mind. Donaldson, John (2018). "Mental Causation". Oxford
Regress argument (epistemology) (1,743 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
infinite regress. It is a problem in epistemology and in any general situation where a statement has to be justified. The argument is also known as diallelus
Quantum counting algorithm (1,678 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Quantum counting algorithm is a quantum algorithm for efficiently counting the number of solutions for a given search problem. The algorithm is based
Sustainability and systemic change resistance (3,746 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The environmental sustainability problem has proven difficult to solve. The modern environmental movement has attempted to solve the problem in a large
Coping (5,425 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
cause of their problem. They do this by finding out information on the problem and learning new skills to manage the problem. Problem-focused coping is
Theory of forms (5,327 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
understanding about every problem ..." (with regard to "the course of scrutiny") – The Seventh Letter 344b. Unfortunately the hidden world can in no way be verified
Reinforcement learning (8,188 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
that maximizes the expected cumulative reward. Formulating the problem as a Markov decision process assumes the agent directly observes the current environmental
Problem-based learning (8,001 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problem-based learning (PBL) is a teaching method in which students learn about a subject through the experience of solving an open-ended problem found
Problem Child (film) (3,115 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Problem Child is a 1990 American black comedy film directed by Dennis Dugan in his feature film directorial debut and produced by Robert Simonds. The
Induction puzzles (6,919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
it would have no way of knowing that the colour even existed in the problem, and it would be impossible for them to answer. Each of the Logicians can
Erectile dysfunction (7,489 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
It is the most common sexual problem in males and can cause psychological distress due to its impact on self-image and sexual relationships. The majority
IPv4 address exhaustion (6,434 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
exhaustion started with the recognition of the problem in the early 1990s, and the introduction of a number of stop-gap refinements to make the existing structure
Bouldering (3,403 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
six metres (20 ft) tall. Traverses, which are a form of boulder problem, require the climber to climb horizontally from one end to another. Artificial
Condition number (2,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the value of the asymptotic worst-case relative change in output for a relative change in input. The "function" is the solution of a problem and the "arguments"
Simulated annealing (4,628 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
optimization problem. For large numbers of local optima, SA can find the global optimum. It is often used when the search space is discrete (for example the traveling
AI alignment (12,973 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
open problem. The alignment problem has many parallels with the principal-agent problem in organizational economics. In a principal-agent problem, a principal
Approximation algorithm (3,126 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
solutions to optimization problems (in particular NP-hard problems) with provable guarantees on the distance of the returned solution to the optimal one. Approximation
Euthyphro dilemma (9,161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
which is loved by the gods (τὸ θεοφιλές), but Socrates finds a problem with this proposal: the gods may disagree among themselves (7e). Euthyphro then revises
Bootstrapping (3,490 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
solves the problem of how to create a better precise flat surface. Bootstrapping is using very general consistency criteria to determine the form of
Mental disorder (21,966 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
a mental health problem in their lifetime, in comparison to 1 in 4 of the general population that suffers from a mental health problem in their lifetimes
Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm (1,225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Bernstein–Vazirani algorithm, which solves the Bernstein–Vazirani problem, is a quantum algorithm invented by Ethan Bernstein and Umesh Vazirani in
Problem of religious language (6,252 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The problem of religious language considers whether it is possible to talk about God meaningfully if the traditional conceptions of God as being incorporeal
Manchuria–Mongolia problem (133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Manchuria-Mongolia problem (Japanese: 満蒙問題, Hepburn: manmō mondai) refers to a set of issues concerning Imperial Japan's protection of its special
Income and fertility (4,013 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
lead to a variety of problems. See for example the demographics of Japan. Some scholars have observed a dramatic increase in the proportion of young adults
Lychrel number (2,122 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in mathematics Do any base-10 Lychrel numbers exist? More unsolved problems in mathematics A Lychrel number is a natural number that
Houston, we have a problem (669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
problem. Swigert and Lovell reporting the incident on April 13, 1970 (2:59) Problems playing this file? See media help. "Houston, we have a problem"
Hilbert's fifth problem (1,077 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hilbert's fifth problem is the fifth mathematical problem from the problem list publicized in 1900 by mathematician David Hilbert, and concerns the characterization
Social novel (5,390 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The social novel, also known as the social problem (or social protest) novel, is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender
Strong CP problem (1,511 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The strong CP problem is a question in particle physics, which brings up the following quandary: why does quantum chromodynamics (QCD) seem to preserve
Cash flow (1,062 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
models such as internal rate of return and net present value. to determine problems with a business's liquidity. Being profitable does not necessarily mean
Explanatory gap (1,595 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
explanation for experience and qualia) is known as "the hard problem". The hardness of the problem is such that mysterians believe it can never be solved
Derangement (2,212 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
that no letter appears in the correctly addressed envelope. Counting derangements of a set amounts to the hat-check problem, in which one considers the number
Multi-armed bandit (7,669 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theory and machine learning, the multi-armed bandit problem (sometimes called the K- or N-armed bandit problem) is a problem in which a decision maker iteratively
Cash flow (1,062 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
models such as internal rate of return and net present value. to determine problems with a business's liquidity. Being profitable does not necessarily mean
No Problem (2010 film) (1,216 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
No Problem is a 2010 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Anees Bazmee and produced by Rajat Rawail and Anil Kapoor. The film stars Kapoor
Harmonic series (mathematics) (6,219 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
numbers, the analysis of the coupon collector's problem on how many random trials are needed to provide a complete range of responses, the connected
Manchuria–Mongolia problem (133 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Manchuria-Mongolia problem (Japanese: 満蒙問題, Hepburn: manmō mondai) refers to a set of issues concerning Imperial Japan's protection of its special
Unknotting problem (1,398 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in mathematics Can unknots be recognized in polynomial time? More unsolved problems in mathematics In mathematics, the unknotting problem is
New riddle of induction (3,876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The new riddle of induction was presented by Nelson Goodman in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast as a successor to Hume's original problem. It presents the
Hilbert's fifth problem (1,077 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hilbert's fifth problem is the fifth mathematical problem from the problem list publicized in 1900 by mathematician David Hilbert, and concerns the characterization
Busy beaver (7,914 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
function. This has implications in computability theory, the halting problem, and complexity theory. The concept of a busy beaver was first introduced by Tibor
Tautology (logic) (3,114 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
that (equivalently for all NP-complete problems) no polynomial-time algorithm can solve the satisfiability problem, although some algorithms perform well
Problem of the creator of God (1,328 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
philosophy, the problem of the creator of God is the controversy regarding the hypothetical cause responsible for the existence of God, on the assumption
Galaxy rotation curve (4,706 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the velocity observations. The galaxy rotation problem is the discrepancy between observed galaxy rotation curves and the theoretical prediction, assuming
Neutral monism (4,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
within the philosophy of mind, specifically the mind–body problem and the hard problem of consciousness. The mind–body problem is the problem of explaining
Scarcity (2,949 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the conditions of scarcity did not exist and an "infinite amount of every good could be produced or human wants fully satisfied ... there would be no
Blending inheritance (1,319 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
generation would be more uniform than the one before, and that Darwin should have said as much to Jenkin. The problem was not with natural selection, but
Integer programming (4,192 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
An integer programming problem is a mathematical optimization or feasibility program in which some or all of the variables are restricted to be integers
Dijkstra's algorithm (5,644 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
shortest paths from source to target, or the empty sequence if no path exists. A more general problem is to find all the shortest paths between source and target
Turing machine (9,420 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
This is due to the fact that the halting problem is unsolvable, which has major implications for the theoretical limits of computing. The Turing machine
Baryon asymmetry (2,378 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in physics What is the source of imbalance of matter and antimatter? This refers to the small non-zero value of baryons over photons
Social-desirability bias (3,164 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
undesirable behavior. The tendency poses a serious problem with conducting research with self-reports. This bias interferes with the interpretation of average
Conjunction fallacy (2,385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
A conjunction effect or Linda problem is a bias or mistake in reasoning where adding extra details (an "and" statement or logical conjunction; mathematical
CP violation (7,659 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
important to the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem, the strong CP problem, and in the study of weak interactions in particle physics. Under the CPT theorem
Quantum supremacy (5,929 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
supremacy or quantum advantage is the goal of demonstrating that a programmable quantum computer can solve a problem that no classical computer can solve in
Missing heritability problem (1,729 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In genetics, the missing heritability problem refers to a difference between heritability estimates obtained from early genome-wide association studies
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (2,768 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
skills. The main aim is to be able to assess the skills of literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments, and use the collected
Newton's law of universal gravitation (3,839 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
background to the n-body problem; Section 2: Celestial Mechanics (Chapter 1, The Uniformization of the Three-body Problem (Restricted Three-body Problem); Chapter
P (complexity) (1,923 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
theory, P, also known as PTIME or DTIME(nO(1)), is a fundamental complexity class. It contains all decision problems that can be solved by a deterministic
Eureka effect (4,968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
suddenly understanding a previously incomprehensible problem or concept. Some research describes the Aha! effect (also known as insight or epiphany) as
MFÖ (517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ele Güne Karşı Yapayalnız (1984) Peki Peki Anladık (1985) Vak the Rock (1986) No Problem (1987) Geldiler (1990) Agannaga Rüşvet (1992) Dönmem Yolumdan
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors (13,619 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
summation of the eigenvectors. The eigenvalue problem of complex structures is often solved using finite element analysis, but neatly generalize the solution
Oracle machine (2,028 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
instance of the problem is an arbitrary natural number (or string). The solution to the instance is "YES" if the number (string) is in the set, and "NO" otherwise
Search algorithm (1,453 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
search problem. Search algorithms work to retrieve information stored within particular data structure, or calculated in the search space of a problem domain
Cut (graph theory) (1,132 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
computationally hard. The max-cut problem is one of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems. The max-cut problem is also APX-hard, meaning that there is no polynomial-time
Differential evolution (1,589 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
commonly known as metaheuristics as they make few or no assumptions about the optimized problem and can search very large spaces of candidate solutions
Bipartite graph (4,093 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
differing colors, as is required in the graph coloring problem. In contrast, such a coloring is impossible in the case of a non-bipartite graph, such
Personal identity (6,385 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
personal identity is referred to as the diachronic problem of personal identity. The synchronic problem concerns the question of what features and traits
Socrates (11,572 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
known as the Socratic problem. Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society. In 399 BC, he was accused of impiety and corrupting the youth. After
Maximum flow problem (5,227 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
maximum flow problems involve finding a feasible flow through a flow network that obtains the maximum possible flow rate. The maximum flow problem can be seen
Multi-objective optimization (9,569 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
multi-objective optimization problem, it is not guaranteed that a single solution simultaneously optimizes each objective. The objective functions are said
Alcoholism (15,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Alcoholism is the continued drinking of alcohol despite it causing problems. Some definitions require evidence of dependence and withdrawal. Problematic
Louis Nirenberg (5,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Math. 30 (1977), no. 1, 41–68. Cheng, Shiu Yuen; Yau, Shing Tung. On the regularity of the solution of the n-dimensional Minkowski problem. Comm. Pure Appl
Quantum optimization algorithms (3,576 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Mostly, the optimization problem is formulated as a minimization problem, where one tries to minimize an error which depends on the solution: the optimal
Two-gospel hypothesis (2,427 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
than the Gospel of Mark. It is a proposed solution to the synoptic problem, which concerns the pattern of similarities and differences between the three
Fate of the unlearned (3,766 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
argument against the existence of God, and is generally accepted to be an extension or sub-section of the problem of evil. In the Bible, Paul the Apostle teaches
Grover's algorithm (4,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
evaluations of the function, where N {\displaystyle N} is the size of the function's domain. It was devised by Lov Grover in 1996. The analogous problem in classical
One-child policy (20,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
presents the urgency of the population problem as well as justifies the necessity of mandatory birth control across the nation. Due to the previous traumas
Michael Huemer (1,014 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, and Mind. In 2013, he published The Problem of Political Authority, in which he argues that modern arguments for
Travis Tomko (3,408 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
match on Christian's behalf and helping him pick up the win. His gimmick was that of "The Problem Solver", and acting as an "enforcer for hire" for Christian
The Final Problem (3,492 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand
Missing heritability problem (1,729 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In genetics, the missing heritability problem refers to a difference between heritability estimates obtained from early genome-wide association studies
One-child policy (20,774 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
presents the urgency of the population problem as well as justifies the necessity of mandatory birth control across the nation. Due to the previous traumas
Yang–Mills existence and mass gap (1,867 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Yang–Mills existence and mass gap problem is an unsolved problem in mathematical physics and mathematics, and one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems
MFÖ (517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ele Güne Karşı Yapayalnız (1984) Peki Peki Anladık (1985) Vak the Rock (1986) No Problem (1987) Geldiler (1990) Agannaga Rüşvet (1992) Dönmem Yolumdan
Logic puzzle (517 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In his book The Game of Logic he introduced a game to solve problems such as confirming the conclusion
Riesel number (1,872 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
that the number 509203 has this property, as does 509203 plus any positive integer multiple of 11184810. The Riesel problem consists in determining the smallest
Subset sum problem (3,781 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The subset sum problem (SSP) is a decision problem in computer science. In its most general formulation, there is a multiset S {\displaystyle S} of integers
A Penguin's Troubles (1,536 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Lunch A Problem of a Hero A Problem of Bowling A Problem of Escaping A Problem of Toilets A Problem of the Future A Problem of Swimming A Problem of Parting
Henri Poincaré (11,421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In his research on the three-body problem, Poincaré became the first person to discover a chaotic deterministic system which laid the foundations of modern
BPP (complexity) (2,455 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
science, bounded-error probabilistic polynomial time (BPP) is the class of decision problems solvable by a probabilistic Turing machine in polynomial time
Fallibilism (2,886 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
also represented within the regress argument, is closely related to the problem of the criterion and is a constituent of the Münchhausen trilemma. Illustrious
FIDE titles (3,169 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
trainers. Titles for correspondence chess, chess problem composition and chess problem solving are no longer administered by FIDE. A chess title, usually
Louis Nirenberg (5,007 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Math. 30 (1977), no. 1, 41–68. Cheng, Shiu Yuen; Yau, Shing Tung. On the regularity of the solution of the n-dimensional Minkowski problem. Comm. Pure Appl
Shakespeare's plays (4,995 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
histories follows the categories used in the First Folio. However, modern criticism has labelled some of these plays "problem plays" that elude easy categorisation
Fate of the unlearned (3,766 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
argument against the existence of God, and is generally accepted to be an extension or sub-section of the problem of evil. In the Bible, Paul the Apostle teaches
Independence (mathematical logic) (519 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
is unrelated to the idea of "decidability" as in a decision problem.) A theory T is independent if no axiom in T is provable from the remaining axioms
Computability (3,293 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is the ability to solve a problem in an effective manner. It is a key topic of the field of computability theory within mathematical logic and the theory
Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They? (1,456 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they? (Japanese: 問題児たちが異世界から来るそうですよ?, Hepburn: Mondaiji-tachi ga Isekai Kara Kuru Sō Desu yo?)
Don't Shoot (The Game song) (206 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
by American rapper the Game featuring Rick Ross, 2 Chainz, Diddy, Fabolous, Wale, DJ Khaled, Swizz Beatz, Yo Gotti, Currensy, Problem, King Pharoah and
Coin flipping (4,286 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(11 December 2002). "The Problem of Thinking Too Much" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Stanford University. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October
Groupthink (8,832 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
(2004-11-08). "Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Steiner tree problem (4,391 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematics, the Steiner tree problem, or minimum Steiner tree problem, named after Jakob Steiner, is an umbrella term for a class of problems in combinatorial
Gestalt psychology (6,225 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theorists, that animals can learn by "sudden insight" into the "structure" of a problem, over and above the associative and incremental manner of learning that
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories (525 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Problem at Pollensa Bay and Other Stories is a short story collection by Agatha Christie published in the UK only in November 1991 by HarperCollins. It
Turing degree (3,130 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
decision problems. The Turing degree of a set is a measure of how difficult it is to solve the decision problem associated with the set, that is, to determine
Numerical analysis (3,919 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis
Dominating set (4,082 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
classical NP-complete decision problem in computational complexity theory. Therefore it is believed that there may be no efficient algorithm that can compute
Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem (3,118 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou (FPUT) problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated
Sorites paradox (4,699 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
is to use a multi-valued logic. In this context, the problem is with the principle of bivalence: the sand is either a heap or is not a heap, without any
Problem Child (TV series) (589 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
based on the Problem Child films. The series was first premiered on USA Network (part of USA Cartoon Express block) in October 31, 1993 until the final episode's
Dedekind number (2,046 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
summation are known. However Dedekind's problem of computing the values of M ( n ) {\displaystyle M(n)} remains difficult: no closed-form expression for M ( n
Argument from nonbelief (4,558 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
there is a problem about God's liability for what is created. More fundamentally in relation to Murray's argument, there is the problem for orthodox
Power-flow study (2,789 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
describes the energy flow through each transmission line. The problem is non-linear because the power flow into load impedances is a function of the square
FP (complexity) (354 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
computers without randomization. The difference between FP and P is that problems in P have one-bit, yes/no answers, while problems in FP can have any output
Apollo 13 (13,648 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
caused no problems, partly because of the extensive electrical insulation improvements instituted after the Apollo 1 fire. Despite all this, the crew voiced
Ancient Egyptian mathematics (2,915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
beginning of Hellenistic Egypt. The ancient Egyptians utilized a numeral system for counting and solving written mathematical problems, often involving multiplication
Mind–body dualism (12,273 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in the mind–body problem. Aristotle shared Plato's view of multiple souls and further elaborated a hierarchical arrangement, corresponding to the distinctive
Multiple inheritance (2,457 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
to its increased complexity and ambiguity in situations such as the "diamond problem", where it may be ambiguous as to which parent class a particular
Externality (10,668 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Solution to the Problem of Externalities When Agents Are Well Informed". The American Economic Review. Vol. 84 No. 5. Marney, G.A. (1971). "The ‘Coase Theorem:'
Resource allocation (523 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
relates to consumer preferences in an economy Collective problem solving – Approaches to problem solvingPages displaying short descriptions of redirect
Q source (4,506 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
treatment of the synoptic problem in 1863, and the two-source hypothesis has dominated ever since. At this time, the second source was usually called the Logia
Kurds in Turkey (8,090 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the Prime Ministry to solve the problem of Kurdish separatism and underdevelopment. In 1961, the DPT prepared a report titled "The principles of the state's
Double-spending (1,042 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Double-spending is the unauthorized production and spending of money, either digital or conventional. It represents a monetary design problem: a good money
Speech disorder (1,747 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
language problems. There are three different levels of classification when determining the magnitude and type of a speech disorder and the proper treatment
N/A (782 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
was one for which no answer would be applicable to certain persons filling out the form. Before programmers became aware of a problem with a particular
List of paradoxes (7,903 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Successfully fixing a problem with a defective product may lead to higher consumer satisfaction than in the case where no problem occurred at all. St.
Mental event (890 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
identity even makes sense, is central to the mind–body problem. Some state that the mental and the physical are the very same property which cause any event(s)
User error (1,781 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
interaction practitioners, the more formal term human error is used in the context of human reliability. Related terms such as PEBKAC ("problem exists between keyboard
Tunneling protocol (1,956 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and port originating from the   opposing (remote or local, as previously) host. The #TCP meltdown problem is often not a problem when using OpenSSH's port
Edge coloring (8,472 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
a graph by the colors red, blue, and green. Edge colorings are one of several different types of graph coloring. The edge-coloring problem asks whether
Dolomite (rock) (3,407 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
dolomitic limestone. The "dolomite problem" refers to the vast worldwide depositions of dolomite in the past geologic record in contrast to the limited amounts
Eye disease (1,672 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, or ICD-10. This list uses that classification. (H02.1) Ectropion (H02
Indigo (Chris Brown album) (4,593 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Nicki Minaj and G-Eazy, "No Guidance", featuring Drake, and "Heat", featuring Gunna. "No Guidance" was certified diamond by the Recording Industry Association
Metrizable space (865 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-09-25. Retrieved 2012-08-08. Neeb, Karl-Hermann, On a theorem of S. Banach. J. Lie Theory 7 (1997), no. 2, 293–300
Curse of knowledge (2,610 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
find the user interfaces difficult to use and navigate. This problem has become so widespread in software design that the mantra "You are not the user"
Chinese room (12,759 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
version of the problem of other minds, applied to machines. There is no way we can determine if other people's subjective experience is the same as our
Constraint programming (2,322 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
customized code like a problem-specific branching heuristic. Constraint programming takes its root from and can be expressed in the form of constraint logic
Augustinian theodicy (4,670 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Christian theodicy that developed in response to the evidential problem of evil. As such, it attempts to explain the probability of an omnipotent (all-powerful)
General Problem Solver (481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
a universal problem solver machine. In contrast to the former Logic Theorist project, the GPS works with means–ends analysis. Any problem that can be
Child sexual abuse (19,262 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
costs for the former. Intergenerational effects have been noted, with the children of victims of child sexual abuse exhibiting more conduct problems, peer
Mars 2MV-3 No.1 (432 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
part of the Mars program, and was intended to land on the surface of Mars. Due to a problem with the rocket which launched it, it did not depart low Earth
Fanaticism (744 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Each behavior is obvious once it is pointed out; a closed mind, no interest in debating the subject of worship, and over reaction to people who do not believe
Altruism (11,416 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
individual, without the expectation of reciprocity or compensation for that action. The theory of psychological egoism suggests that no act of sharing, helping
Triangle-free graph (2,524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the numbers of vertices on each side of the bipartition are as equal as possible. The triangle finding or triangle detection problem is the problem of
Knowledge (18,985 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Ichikawa & Steup 2018, § 3. The Gettier Problem, § 10.2 Fake Barn Cases Ichikawa & Steup 2018, § 3. The Gettier Problem, § 4. No False Lemmas, § 5. Modal
Analysis paralysis (1,737 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
potentially larger problem may arise. A person may desire a perfect solution, but may fear making a decision that could result in error, while on the way to a better
Computational complexity (3,016 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
measured by the number of needed elementary operations) and memory storage requirements. The complexity of a problem is the complexity of the best algorithms
Correspondence problem (861 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The correspondence problem refers to the problem of ascertaining which parts of one image correspond to which parts of another image, where differences
Bill Nye (7,548 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Solve Any Problem. Emmaus, Pennsylvania: Rodale Books. ISBN 978-1623367916. Jack and the Geniuses at the Bottom of the World (2017) Jack and the Geniuses
Mark 15 torpedo (970 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Newport and at the Naval Ordnance Station Forest Park, Illinois. The Mark 15 had the same basic design problems that plagued the Mark 14 for the first 20 months
Kirkman's schoolgirl problem (4,153 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
schoolgirl problem is a problem in combinatorics proposed by Thomas Penyngton Kirkman in 1850 as Query VI in The Lady's and Gentleman's Diary (pg.48). The problem
Triangular number (3,543 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
also equivalent to the handshake problem and fully connected network problems. One way of calculating the depreciation of an asset is the sum-of-years' digits
Firewall (physics) (1,647 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
the outgoing and infalling particles separate, resulting in a more gradual release of energy inside the black hole, and consequently no firewall. The
Problem Child (The Damned song) (257 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
"Problem Child" is a single by English punk rock band the Damned, released on 30 September 1977 by Stiff Records as a preview for the band's second studio
David Icke (12,730 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the phrase "problem–reaction–solution" to explain how he believes the Illuminati agenda advances. According to Icke, the Illuminati guide us in the direction
Decision tree (3,463 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Odds algorithm – Method of computing optimal strategies for last-success problems Topological combinatorics Truth table – Mathematical table used in logic
Gottlob Frege (5,402 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematics and logic, and which solved the problem of multiple generality. Previous logic had dealt with the logical constants and, or, if... then..
Sleeping Beauty problem (2,421 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Sleeping Beauty problem, also known as the Sleeping Beauty paradox, is a puzzle in decision theory in which an ideally rational epistemic agent is
Odyssey of the Mind (3,646 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Odyssey of the Mind, abbreviated OM or OotM, is a creative problem-solving program where team members present their solution at a competition to a predefined
Cognition (5,988 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
imagination, intelligence, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem-solving and decision-making
The Problem with a Poo (1,014 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"The Problem with a Poo" is the third episode of the twenty-second season of the American animated television series South Park. The 290th overall episode
Xbox 360 technical problems (5,932 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Xbox 360 video game console is subject to a number of technical problems and failures that can render it unusable. However, many of the issues can
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness (5,049 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem concerns the mathematical properties of solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations, a system of partial
A Problem from Hell (859 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002) is a book by American Samantha Power, at that time Professor of Human Rights Practice at
Factorization (7,863 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
factorization (see above) reduces the problem of searching for rational roots to the case of polynomials with integer coefficients having no non-trivial common divisor
Well-posed problem (1,540 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematics, a well-posed problem is one for which the following properties hold: The problem has a solution The solution is unique The solution's behavior
Political status of Crimea (8,161 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Crimean problem (Russian: Проблема Крыма, romanized: Problyema Kryma; Ukrainian: Кримська проблема, romanized: Krymska problema) or the Crimean question
Benedict Wong (1,695 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
has a main role in the Netflix series 3 Body Problem. Wong was born in Eccles, a town in the city of Salford, England, in 1971, the son of Hong Kong immigrant
Integer partition (3,403 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
+ 1 The only partition of zero is the empty sum, having no parts. The order-dependent composition 1 + 3 is the same partition as 3 + 1, and the two distinct
Team building (3,005 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
teams with no clear of how to be successful. Team work is the best work. Teams are then assembled to address specific problems, while the underlying causes
Anti-Indonesian sentiment (413 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Despite the Australian government originally supporting Jakarta's policies, the East Timor issue created anti-Indonesian sentiment throughout the Australian
Susan Pevensie (1,304 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
place in the Narnia books. Since the publication of Gaiman's story, "the problem of Susan" has become used more widely as a catchphrase for the literary
Mathematical problem (936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematical problem is a problem that can be represented, analyzed, and possibly solved, with the methods of mathematics. This can be a real-world problem, such
Ultraviolet catastrophe (1,050 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
spectrum, there was a problem. This problem was later found to be due to a property of quanta as proposed by Max Planck: There could be no fraction of a discrete
Economic system (4,069 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
economic problem is anchored on the theory of pricing. The theory of pricing, in this context, has to do with the economic decision-making between the production
Philosophy (17,451 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
philosophy is the relation between reason and revelation. Indian philosophy combines the spiritual problem of how to reach enlightenment with the exploration
Graph isomorphism problem (4,214 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in computer science Can the graph isomorphism problem be solved in polynomial time? More unsolved problems in computer science The graph
Isoperimetric inequality (3,481 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
that equality holds if and only if the curve is a circle. The isoperimetric problem is to determine a plane figure of the largest possible area whose boundary
Oppositional defiant disorder (6,301 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
child-focused problem-solving skills training program, and self-monitoring skills. Anger control and stress inoculation help prepare the child for possible
Hill climbing (1,549 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
technique which belongs to the family of local search. It is an iterative algorithm that starts with an arbitrary solution to a problem, then attempts to find
Hughesy, We Have a Problem (1,254 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Hughesy, We Have a Problem was an Australian comedy panel television series which premiered on Network 10 on 30 January 2018. The program was hosted by
SL (complexity) (1,793 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
Logspace or Sym-L) is the complexity class of problems log-space reducible to USTCON (undirected s-t connectivity), which is the problem of determining whether
If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem (249 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the Solution, You're Part of the Problem is the eleventh album by American jazz tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson. It was rereleased in 2004 as At the Lighthouse
Sentence (mathematical logic) (461 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
theories problem. For the interpretation of formulas, consider these structures: the positive real numbers, the real numbers, and complex numbers. The following
Criticism of socialism (4,655 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
should be criticized on theoretical grounds, such as in the economic calculation problem and the socialist calculation debate, while others hold that certain
Flatness problem (4,327 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The flatness problem (also known as the oldness problem) is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model of the universe. Such problems
Excession (1,635 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
freaks. This novel is about how the Culture deals with an Outside Context Problem (OCP). This is a problem that is "outside the context" as it is generally
Coin problem (3,743 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In mathematics, the coin problem (also referred to as the Frobenius coin problem or Frobenius problem, after the mathematician Ferdinand Frobenius) is
Amnesia (6,764 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
modified. Other neurological problems are likely to be present in combination with this type of amnesia, such as problems with the medial temporal lobe and
Well-posed problem (1,540 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematics, a well-posed problem is one for which the following properties hold: The problem has a solution The solution is unique The solution's behavior
1931 census of Palestine (361 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Bahais, 182 Samaritans, and 421 reporting no religion. A special problem was posed by the nomadic Bedouin of the south, who were reluctant to co-operate
Aperiodic set of prototiles (1,068 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the list of aperiodic sets of tiles. The underlying undecidability of the domino problem implies that there exists no systematic procedure for deciding whether
Binary black hole (4,392 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
in PKS 1302-102. The question of how this happens is the "final parsec problem". A number of solutions to the final parsec problem have been proposed
Oppositional defiant disorder (6,301 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
child-focused problem-solving skills training program, and self-monitoring skills. Anger control and stress inoculation help prepare the child for possible
Philosophical analysis (1,310 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
true if and only if the subject is in the extension of the predicate. The problem is that there is no present king of France, so the present king of France
Axion (7,688 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
and Steven Weinberg as the Goldstone boson of Peccei–Quinn theory, which had been proposed in 1977 to solve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics
Bitcoin scalability problem (1,375 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The Bitcoin scalability problem refers to the limited capability of the Bitcoin network to handle large amounts of transaction data on its platform in
Kissing number (2,183 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Unsolved problem in mathematics What is the maximum possible kissing number for n-dimensional spheres in (n + 1)-dimensional Euclidean space? More unsolved
Quadratic programming (1,914 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Quadratic programming (QP) is the process of solving certain mathematical optimization problems involving quadratic functions. Specifically, one seeks
Kolmogorov complexity (7,565 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
argument, Gödel's incompleteness theorem, and Turing's halting problem. In particular, no program P computing a lower bound for each text's Kolmogorov complexity
Longest path problem (2,662 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
In graph theory and theoretical computer science, the longest path problem is the problem of finding a simple path of maximum length in a given graph
Chaitin's constant (2,321 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Knowing the first N bits of Ω, one could calculate the halting problem for all programs of a size up to N. Let the program p for which the halting problem is
Neurological examination (956 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
If a problem is found either in an investigative or screening process, then further tests can be carried out to focus on a particular aspect of the nervous
Monte Carlo method (10,690 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
numerical results. The underlying concept is to use randomness to solve problems that might be deterministic in principle. The name comes from the Monte Carlo
Organizational founder (862 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
outgrows the ability of the founder, or even of a small team around the founder, to control". The Harvard Business Review identified this problem as the founder's
Slavery in Oman (3,417 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Global Problem, p. 265-66 Suzanne Miers: Slavery in the Twentieth Century: The Evolution of a Global Problem, p. 304-07 Women and Slavery: Africa, the Indian
Susan Pevensie (1,304 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
place in the Narnia books. Since the publication of Gaiman's story, "the problem of Susan" has become used more widely as a catchphrase for the literary
Ugly Betty season 3 (1,719 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Entertainment Weekly, he asked Ferrera about the absence of the two actors after they were no-shows at the Season 3 premiere party in New York City on
Collision detection (4,887 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
detection is the computational problem of detecting an intersection of two or more objects in virtual space. More precisely, it deals with the questions
Formal proof (579 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
while the problem of finding proofs (automated theorem proving) is usually computationally intractable and/or only semi-decidable, depending upon the formal
Reduction (complexity) (1,658 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
transforming one problem into another problem. A sufficiently efficient reduction from one problem to another may be used to show that the second problem is at least
Mathematical problem (936 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
mathematical problem is a problem that can be represented, analyzed, and possibly solved, with the methods of mathematics. This can be a real-world problem, such
Combinatorics (3,524 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
considered in isolation, giving an ad hoc solution to a problem arising in some mathematical context. In the later twentieth century, however, powerful and general
Igo Hatsuyōron (2,037 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
the first problem has no solution, and suggests that it could have been placed in first position by some rival school, to discredit the book. The copy
Tsume shogi (2,114 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
Classic Tsume Shogi Problem ☖ pieces in hand: 飛2角金4銀桂4歩17 ☗ pieces in hand: 銀 Composer is unknown. The solution is 1. +B-52 2. S41x52 3. S*42 or 1. +B-52
Graham's number (2,541 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
number is an immense number that arose as an upper bound on the answer of a problem in the mathematical field of Ramsey theory. It is much larger than
Transportation theory (mathematics) (4,442 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article
the study of optimal transportation and allocation of resources. The problem was formalized by the French mathematician Gaspard Monge in 1781. In the
Fertility and intelligence (4,321 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The low IQ may not be a problem; in the past, immigrants have sometimes shown large increases on such measures. But other evidence indicates that the
Initial value problem (1,377 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
an initial value problem (IVP) is an ordinary differential equation together with an initial condition which specifies the value of the unknown function
Spurious relationship (1,828 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
as well, so that no conclusion of efficacy of the drug can be drawn from the results of the first culture. On the other hand, if the control culture does
Satisfiability modulo theories (4,371 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
theories (SMT) is the problem of determining whether a mathematical formula is satisfiable. It generalizes the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) to more
Edmund Gettier (1,345 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
philosophical literature trying to respond to what became known as the Gettier problem. Edmund Lee Gettier III was born on October 31, 1927, in Baltimore
Horizon problem (1,813 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article
The horizon problem (also known as the homogeneity problem) is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model of the universe. It arises
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issues. Malignant tumors of the respiratory system, particularly primary carcinomas of the lung, are a major health problem responsible for 15% of all
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The Tower of Hanoi (also called The problem of Benares Temple, Tower of Brahma or Lucas' Tower, and sometimes pluralized as Towers, or simply pyramid
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provide the most beneficial output for society. A common problem associated with the stag hunt is the amount of trust required to achieve this output. Fig
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report problems that need solving. One or two of the Numberjacks fly out on location to investigate the issues, that are normally caused by the show's
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The Diffie–Hellman problem (DHP) is a mathematical problem first proposed by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman in the context of cryptography and serves
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convinced that the problem of generalization was the most fundamental problem confronting learning theory. Because we never encounter exactly the same total