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Computer Scientists Discover Limits of Major Research Algorithm | Quanta Magazine

The most widely used technique for finding the largest or smallest values of a math function turns out to be a fundamentally difficult computational problem.

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Hasnain says:

““There’s a slightly humorous stereotype about computational complexity that says what we often end up doing is taking a problem that is solved a lot of the time in practice and proving that it’s actually very difficult,” said Goldberg.”

Posted on 2021-08-18T06:28:28+0000