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  2. Eight queens puzzle - Wikipedia

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    In the game The 7th Guest, the 8th Puzzle: "The Queen's Dilemma" in the game room of the Stauf mansion is the de facto eight queens puzzle. [ 28 ] : 48–49, 289–290 In the game Professor Layton and the Curious Village , the 130th puzzle: "Too Many Queens 5" ( クイーンの問題5 ) is an eight queens puzzle.

  3. P versus NP problem - Wikipedia

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    To attack the P = NP question, the concept of NP-completeness is very useful. NP-complete problems are problems that any other NP problem is reducible to in polynomial time and whose solution is still verifiable in polynomial time. That is, any NP problem can be transformed into any NP-complete problem. Informally, an NP-complete problem is an ...

  4. Busy beaver - Wikipedia

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    Orange is "1", white is "0" (image compressed vertically). In theoretical computer science, the busy beaver game aims at finding a terminating program of a given size that (depending on definition) either produces the most output possible, or runs for the longest number of steps. [ 2 ] Since an endlessly looping program producing infinite ...

  5. Computer algebra - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic integration of the algebraic function f(x) = ⁠ x / √ x 4 + 10x 2 − 96x − 71 ⁠ using the computer algebra system Axiom. In mathematics and computer science, [1] computer algebra, also called symbolic computation or algebraic computation, is a scientific area that refers to the study and development of algorithms and software for manipulating mathematical expressions and other ...

  6. Heuristic (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    Heuristic (computer science) In mathematical optimization and computer science, 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 or approximate solution, or when classic methods fail to find any exact solution in a search space.

  7. Knapsack problem - Wikipedia

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    In the field of cryptography, the term knapsack problem is often used to refer specifically to the subset sum problem. The subset sum problem is one of Karp's 21 NP-complete problems. [ 40 ] A generalization of subset sum problem is called multiple subset-sum problem, in which multiple bins exist with the same capacity.

  8. Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia

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    The Game of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. [ 1 ] It is a zero-player game, [ 2 ][ 3 ] meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an ...

  9. Induction puzzles - Wikipedia

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    There is a move by nature at the start of the game, which determines the children with and without muddy faces. Children do not communicate as in non-cooperative games. Every stroke is a simultaneous move by children. It is a sequential game of unlimited length. The game-theoretic solution needs some additional assumptions: