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  2. Concoction - Wikipedia

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    Concoction is the process of preparing a medicine, food or other substance out of many ingredients, and also the result of such a process. Historically, the word referred to digestion , as conceived by Aristotle who theorized that this was the result of the heat of the body acting upon the material, causing it to mature and ripen.

  3. Mathematical game - Wikipedia

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    A mathematical game is a game whose rules, strategies, and outcomes are defined by clear mathematical parameters. [1] [verification needed] [clarification needed] Often, such games have simple rules and match procedures, such as tic-tac-toe and dots and boxes. Generally, mathematical games need not be conceptually intricate to involve deeper ...

  4. Mathematical puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Conway's Game of Life and fractals, as two examples, may also be considered mathematical puzzles even though the solver interacts with them only at the beginning by providing a set of initial conditions. After these conditions are set, the rules of the puzzle determine all subsequent changes and moves.

  5. Word problem (mathematics education) - Wikipedia

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    For instance, if the one solving the math word problem has a limited understanding of the language (English, Spanish, etc.) they are more likely to not understand what the problem is even asking. In Example 1 (above), if one does not comprehend the definition of the word "spent," they will misunderstand the entire purpose of the word problem.

  6. Mathematical analysis - Wikipedia

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    This means that the empty set, countable unions, countable intersections and complements of measurable subsets are measurable. Non-measurable sets in a Euclidean space, on which the Lebesgue measure cannot be defined consistently, are necessarily complicated in the sense of being badly mixed up with their complement.

  7. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    These imprecise uses of the word regular are not to be confused with the notion of a regular topological space, which is rigorously defined. resp. (Respectively) A convention to shorten parallel expositions. "A (resp. B) [has some relationship to] X (resp. Y)" means that A [has some relationship to] X and also that B [has (the same ...

  8. Can you solve this math problem meant for 14-year-olds?

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    This Test Question Meant for 14-Year-Olds Is Stumping Adults HARTFORD, Conn. (FOXCT) - Standardized testing in the United States has been quite a controversial topic in recent years.

  9. Logic puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Another form of logic puzzle, popular among puzzle enthusiasts and available in magazines dedicated to the subject, is a format in which the set-up to a scenario is given, as well as the object (for example, determine who brought what dog to a dog show, and what breed each dog was), certain clues are given ("neither Misty nor Rex is the German Shepherd"), and then the reader fills out a matrix ...