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  2. Random walk - Wikipedia

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    An elementary example of a random walk is the random walk on the integer number line which starts at 0, and at each step moves +1 or −1 with equal probability. Other examples include the path traced by a molecule as it travels in a liquid or a gas (see Brownian motion ), the search path of a foraging animal, or the price of a fluctuating ...

  3. Continuous-time random walk - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a continuous-time random walk (CTRW) is a generalization of a random walk where the wandering particle waits for a random time between jumps. It is a stochastic jump process with arbitrary distributions of jump lengths and waiting times. [1] [2] [3] More generally it can be seen to be a special case of a Markov renewal process.

  4. Vieta jumping - Wikipedia

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    Using Vieta's formulas, show that this implies the existence of a smaller solution, hence a contradiction. Example. Problem #6 at IMO 1988: Let a and b be positive integers such that ab + 1 divides a 2 + b 2. Prove that ⁠ a 2 + b 2 / ab + 1 ⁠ is a perfect square. [8] [9] Fix some value k that is a non-square positive integer.

  5. Maze-solving algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Robot in a wooden maze. A maze-solving algorithm is an automated method for solving a maze.The random mouse, wall follower, Pledge, and Trémaux's algorithms are designed to be used inside the maze by a traveler with no prior knowledge of the maze, whereas the dead-end filling and shortest path algorithms are designed to be used by a person or computer program that can see the whole maze at once.

  6. Computational problem - Wikipedia

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    The question then is, whether there exists an algorithm that maps instances to solutions. For example, in the factoring problem, the instances are the integers n, and solutions are prime numbers p that are the nontrivial prime factors of n. An example of a computational problem without a solution is the Halting problem. Computational problems ...

  7. HiGHS optimization solver - Wikipedia

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    HiGHS has implementations of the primal and dual revised simplex method for solving LP problems, based on techniques described by Hall and McKinnon (2005), [6] and Huangfu and Hall (2015, 2018). [ 7 ] [ 8 ] These include the exploitation of hyper-sparsity when solving linear systems in the simplex implementations and, for the dual simplex ...

  8. Problem of points - Wikipedia

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    The problem of points, also called the problem of division of the stakes, is a classical problem in probability theory. One of the famous problems that motivated the beginnings of modern probability theory in the 17th century, it led Blaise Pascal to the first explicit reasoning about what today is known as an expected value .

  9. Dutch national flag problem - Wikipedia

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    The Dutch national flag problem [1] is a computational problem proposed by Edsger Dijkstra. [2] The flag of the Netherlands consists of three colors: red, white, and blue. Given balls of these three colors arranged randomly in a line (it does not matter how many balls there are), the task is to arrange them such that all balls of the same color ...