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  2. Computerized adaptive testing - Wikipedia

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    CAT successively selects questions for the purpose of maximizing the precision of the exam based on what is known about the examinee from previous questions. [2] From the examinee's perspective, the difficulty of the exam seems to tailor itself to their level of ability.

  3. Recursion - Wikipedia

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    A simple base case (or cases) — a terminating scenario that does not use recursion to produce an answer; A recursive step — a set of rules that reduces all successive cases toward the base case. For example, the following is a recursive definition of a person's ancestor. One's ancestor is either: One's parent (base case), or

  4. Recursion (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    A common algorithm design tactic is to divide a problem into sub-problems of the same type as the original, solve those sub-problems, and combine the results. This is often referred to as the divide-and-conquer method; when combined with a lookup table that stores the results of previously solved sub-problems (to avoid solving them repeatedly and incurring extra computation time), it can be ...

  5. Falling cat problem - Wikipedia

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    The falling cat problem has elicited interest from scientists including George Gabriel Stokes, James Clerk Maxwell, and Étienne-Jules Marey.In a letter to his wife, Katherine Mary Clerk Maxwell, Maxwell wrote, "There is a tradition in Trinity that when I was here I discovered a method of throwing a cat so as not to light on its feet, and that I used to throw cats out of windows.

  6. Common Admission Test - Wikipedia

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    -> 20 questions are asked in DILR, questions are asked in 4 sets with 6-6-4-4 or 5-5-5-5 pattern. -> 22 questions are asked in QA, 22 independent questions are asked from topics such as Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Number System & Modern Math. There will be a maximum score of 198 marks and 66 total questions in the CAT exam pattern.

  7. Trial and error - Wikipedia

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    In his famous experiment, a cat was placed in a series of puzzle boxes in order to study the law of effect in learning. [4] He plotted to learn curves which recorded the timing for each trial. Thorndike's key observation was that learning was promoted by positive results, which was later refined and extended by B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning.

  8. Divide-and-conquer algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Divide-and-conquer algorithms are naturally implemented as recursive procedures. In that case, the partial sub-problems leading to the one currently being solved are automatically stored in the procedure call stack. A recursive function is a function that calls itself within its definition.

  9. Primitive recursive function - Wikipedia

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    But if this equals some primitive recursive function, there is an m such that h(n) = f(m,n) for all n, and then h(m) = f(m,m), leading to contradiction. However, the set of primitive recursive functions is not the largest recursively enumerable subset of the set of all total recursive functions. For example, the set of provably total functions ...