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2. Secretary problem - Wikipedia

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   Secretary problem. Graphs of probabilities of getting the best candidate (red circles) from n applications, and k / n (blue crosses) where k is the sample size. The secretary problem demonstrates a scenario involving optimal stopping theory [ 1][ 2] that is studied extensively in the fields of applied probability, statistics, and decision theory.

3. Wedding invitation - Wikipedia

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   Wedding invitation. A wedding invitation is a letter asking the recipient to attend a wedding. It is typically written in the formal, third-person language and mailed five to eight weeks before the wedding date. Like any other invitation, it is the privilege and duty of the host—historically, for younger brides in Western culture, the mother ...

4. Stable marriage problem - Wikipedia

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   Stable marriage problem. In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the stable marriage problem (also stable matching problem) is the problem of finding a stable matching between two equally sized sets of elements given an ordering of preferences for each element. A matching is a bijection from the elements of one set to the elements of ...

5. Scientists traced roses’ thorny origins and solved a 400 ...

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   A new study has found how a rose and other plants like a tomato and eggplant came to get their prickles. The discovery could help engineer new thorn-free variants.

6. RSVP - Wikipedia

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   RSVP is an initialism derived from the French phrase "Répondez s'il vous plaît", [ 1] meaning "Please respond" (literally "Respond, if it pleases you" ), to require confirmation of an invitation. The initialism "RSVP" is no longer used much in France, where it is considered formal and old-fashioned. In France, it is now more common to use ...

7. Art gallery problem - Wikipedia

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   Art gallery problem. The art gallery problem or museum problem is a well-studied visibility problem in computational geometry. It originates from the following real-world problem: "In an art gallery, what is the minimum number of guards who together can observe the whole gallery?" In the geometric version of the problem, the layout of the art ...