Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Combinatorial mathematics.
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- noun mathematics a branch of mathematics that studies (usually
finite ) collections of objects that satisfy specifiedcriteria
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Examples
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President of Orange High's Mock Trial team, co-president of the Science Olympiad team and an officer of the debate team and Model United Nations club, Daniel proved the Chan-Robbins-Yuen Theorem, a theorem in combinatorics, described as the mathematics of counting.
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Mathematicians and computer scientists, especially those who work in areas such as combinatorics and graph theory, often encounter sequences of numbers and need to know just what they represent.
An Important AT&T Legacy Finds a New Home « Steve Wildstrom on Tech 2010
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Ned’s a world-renowned expert in something called combinatorics, which makes him a combinatorist.
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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Ned’s a world-renowned expert in something called combinatorics, which makes him a combinatorist.
Soul Trapper F. J. Lennon 2011
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We learn that the novel is organized according to a kind of combinatorics of phenomena.
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One addresses the concept of absolute infinity; the other, combinatorics, a segment of math that plays a role in statistical physics and modern computing.
Reading Beneath the Lines William Triplett 2011
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Kaplan is banking - literally - that you'll freak out because you've never even heard the word combinatorics.
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Kaplan is banking - literally - that you'll freak out because you've never even heard the word combinatorics.
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You'll get some marketing spiel and then be thrown right into some brutally hard combinatorics questions.
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You'll get some marketing spiel and then be thrown right into some brutally hard combinatorics questions.
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