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  2. Socratic questioning - Wikipedia

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    Socratic questioning (or Socratic maieutics) [1] is an educational method named after Socrates that focuses on discovering answers by asking questions of students. According to Plato, Socrates believed that "the disciplined practice of thoughtful questioning enables the scholar/student to examine ideas and be able to determine the validity of those ideas". [2]

  3. P versus NP problem - Wikipedia

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    The general class of questions that some algorithm can answer in polynomial time is "P" or "class P". For some questions, there is no known way to find an answer quickly, but if provided with an answer, it can be verified quickly. The class of questions where an answer can be verified in polynomial time is "NP", standing for "nondeterministic ...

  4. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    For example, multiplication is granted a higher precedence than addition, and it has been this way since the introduction of modern algebraic notation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Thus, in the expression 1 + 2 × 3 , the multiplication is performed before addition, and the expression has the value 1 + (2 × 3) = 7 , and not (1 + 2) × 3 = 9 .

  5. Millennium Prize Problems - Wikipedia

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    The question is whether or not, for all problems for which an algorithm can verify a given solution quickly (that is, in polynomial time), an algorithm can also find that solution quickly. Since the former describes the class of problems termed NP, while the latter describes P, the question is equivalent to asking whether all problems in NP are ...

  6. Secretary problem - Wikipedia

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    One important drawback for applications of the solution of the classical secretary problem is that the number of applicants must be known in advance, which is rarely the case. One way to overcome this problem is to suppose that the number of applicants is a random variable N {\displaystyle N} with a known distribution of P ( N = k ) k = 1 , 2 ...

  7. NP (complexity) - Wikipedia

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    NP is a class of decision problems; the analogous class of function problems is FNP. The only known strict inclusions come from the time hierarchy theorem and the space hierarchy theorem , and respectively they are N P ⊊ N E X P T I M E {\displaystyle {\mathsf {NP\subsetneq NEXPTIME}}} and N P ⊊ E X P S P A C E {\displaystyle {\mathsf {NP ...

  8. Complexity class - Wikipedia

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    The primality example above, for instance, is an example of a decision problem as it can be represented by the yes–no question "is the natural number prime". In terms of the theory of computation, a decision problem is represented as the set of input strings that a computer running a correct algorithm would answer "yes" to.

  9. Extended matching items - Wikipedia

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    Extended matching items/questions (EMI or EMQ) are a written examination format similar to multiple choice questions but with one key difference, that they test knowledge in a far more applied, in-depth, sense. It is often used in medical education and other healthcare subject areas to test diagnostic reasoning.