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  2. Pancake sorting - Wikipedia

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    In 1979, Bill Gates and Christos Papadimitriou [3] gave a lower bound of ⁠ 17 / 16 ⁠ n (approximately 1.06n) flips and an upper bound of ⁠ (5n+5) / 3 ⁠. The upper bound was improved, thirty years later, to ⁠ 18 / 11 ⁠ n by a team of researchers at the University of Texas at Dallas , led by Founders Professor Hal Sudborough .

  3. Vieta jumping - Wikipedia

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    In 1988, the method came to the attention to mathematical olympiad problems in the light of the first olympiad problem to use it in a solution that was proposed for the International Mathematics Olympiad and assumed to be the most difficult problem on the contest: [2] [3] Let a and b be positive integers such that ab + 1 divides a 2 + b 2.

  4. Persi Diaconis - Wikipedia

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    Persi Warren Diaconis (/ ˌ d aɪ ə ˈ k oʊ n ɪ s /; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. [2] [3] He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University.

  5. Fold (higher-order function) - Wikipedia

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    The extraneous intermediate list structure can be eliminated with the continuation-passing style technique, foldr f z xs == foldl (\ k x-> k. f x) id xs z; similarly, foldl f z xs == foldr (\ x k-> k. flip f x) id xs z ( flip is only needed in languages like Haskell with its flipped order of arguments to the combining function of foldl unlike e ...

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  7. Ordered set operators - Wikipedia

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    In Political science and Decision theory, order relations are typically used in the context of an agent's choice, for example the preferences of a voter over several political candidates.

  8. Collatz conjecture - Wikipedia

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    For example, for 2 5 a + 1 there are 3 increases as 1 iterates to 2, 1, 2, 1, and finally to 2 so the result is 3 3 a + 2; for 2 2 a + 1 there is only 1 increase as 1 rises to 2 and falls to 1 so the result is 3a + 1. When b is 2 k − 1 then there will be k rises and the result will be 3 k a + 3 k − 1.

  9. Hilbert's problems - Wikipedia

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    At least in the mainstream media, the de facto 21st century analogue of Hilbert's problems is the list of seven Millennium Prize Problems chosen during 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Unlike the Hilbert problems, where the primary award was the admiration of Hilbert in particular and mathematicians in general, each prize problem ...