# Kenji Tokitsu prefers to assume a birth date of 1581, which avoids the necessity of assuming the tombstone to be erroneous ( although this poses the problem of from whom then Musashi received the transmission of the family martial art ).

" And while the conjecture may one day be solved, the argument applies to similar unsolved problems ; to Brouwer, the law of the excluded middle was tantamount to assuming that every mathematical problem has a solution.

Taft assumed a prominent role in problem solving, assuming on some occasions the role of acting Secretary of State, while declining repeated offers from Roosevelt to serve on the Supreme Court.

One example of an optimization problem is: Find the shortest curve between two points on a surface, assuming that the curve must also lie on the surface.

The outcome of the three body problem, where the three stars are of comparable mass, is that eventually one of the three stars will be ejected from the system and, assuming no significant further perturbations, the remaining two will form a stable binary system.

As in many mathematical puzzles, finding a solution is made easier by solving a slightly more general problem: how to move a tower of h ( h = height ) disks from a starting peg A ( f = from ) onto a destination peg C ( t = to ), B being the remaining third peg and assuming t ≠ f.

Cook reductions seem to be more powerful than Karp reductions ; for example, any problem in co-NP has a Cook reduction to any NP-complete problem, whereas any problems that are in co-NP-NP ( assuming they exist ) will not have Karp reductions to any problem in NP.

The galaxy rotation problem is the discrepancy between observed galaxy rotation curves and the Keplerian prediction assuming a centrally-dominated mass associated with the observed luminous material.

A few thousand PCs working for a few years could solve a problem requiring 2 < sup > 64 </ sup > calculations, but no amount of traditional computing power will solve a problem requiring 2 < sup > 128 </ sup > operations ( which is about what would be required to brute-force the encryption keys in 128-bit SSL commonly used in web browsers, assuming the underlying ciphers remain secure ).

Unlike the Y2K problem, where significant digits were omitted from the stored values of years, fixing the Year 10, 000 problem does not require updating old records ( assuming they are already Y2K compliant ), since all four significant digits are present.

Instead of asking “ What ’ s the problem ?”, some other methods couch the question in terms of challenges, which AI argues maintains a basis of deficiency, the thinking behind the questions assuming that there is something wrong, or that something needs to be fixed or solved.

" Diebold spokesman David Bear played down the seriousness of the situation, asserting that " For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software.

The problem is how to design a discipline of behavior ( a concurrent algorithm ) such that each philosopher won't starve, i. e. can forever continue to alternate between eating and thinking, assuming that any philosopher can not know when others may want to eat or think.

The logico-mathematical properties can be classified in numerous ways, but one such scheme is to classify the quantities in the problem ( assuming the word problem is primarily numerical ) into known quantities ( the values given in the text of the problem ), wanted quantities ( the values that need to be found ) and auxiliary quantities ( values that may need to be found as intermediate stages of the problem ).

assuming that the parameter is small and that we are able to solve the problem.

He argued that Maxwell's heat problem might be avoided by assuming that the absorbed energy is not be converted into heat, but re-radiated in a still more penetrating form.

In some aspects, the problem of Hell is similar to the problem of evil, assuming the suffering of Hell is something God could have prevented ; The discussion regarding the problem of evil may thus also be of interest for the problem of Hell.

At this moment Mando came hurrying up to announce that the problem was solved and all Norton had to do was to sign a sheaf of papers.

For them only a little more needed to be learned, and then all physical knowledge could be neatly sorted, packaged and put in the inventory to be drawn on for the solution of any human problem.

and yet they cannot ignore this problem because it concerns the implementation of nearly all the planning programs they have devised.

It seems to me that N.C., in his editorial `` Confrontation '' ( SR, Mar. 25 ), has hit upon the real problem that bothers all of us in a complex world: how do we retain our personal relationship with those who suffer??

The most realistic way of facing up to this problem would be to have the State take over full responsibility for assessing all taxable property.

Cathy J. Hanover ( Tar Heel-Kaola Hanover ), formerly called Karet Hanover, has been rather a problem child, but is getting better all the while and can pace a twice around in about 2:31.

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.

These cases, for all their rarity, are so dramatic that friends and relations repeat the story until the general population may get an entirely false notion of how often the hymen is a serious problem to newly-weds.

The false reasoning is that a gradual advance prolongs the pain while a swift powerful act gets it over with and leaves the girl pleased with his virility and grateful for his decisiveness in settling the problem once and for all.

`` Canada doesn't have much of this here juvenile delinquency problem, but we keep a night policeman all the same on account of the crazy tourists ''.

Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest.

This gets down to the heart of our problem, for it reconciles us with God, whom we fear most of all because we have sinned against Him.

`` No problem at all '', said Macneff.

In the meantime, we might be thinking on the problem all these dead beasts represent.

Another problem was that the gradual identification of more and more chemically similar and indistinguishable lanthanides, which were of an uncertain number, led to inconsistency and uncertainty in the numbering of all elements at least from lutetium ( element 71 ) onwards ( hafnium was not known at this time ).

Steiner hoped to form a spiritual movement that would free the individual from any external authority: " The most important problem of all human thinking is this: to comprehend the human being as a personality grounded in him or herself.

A problem is called subsonic if all the speeds in the problem are less than the speed of sound, transonic if speeds both below and above the speed of sound are present ( normally when the characteristic speed is approximately the speed of sound ), supersonic when the characteristic flow speed is greater than the speed of sound, and hypersonic when the flow speed is much greater than the speed of sound.

While all real fluids are compressible, a flow problem is often considered incompressible if the density changes in the problem have a small effect on the outputs of interest.

A more pressing problem for Brueys was a lack of food and water for the fleet: Bonaparte had unloaded almost all of the provisions carried aboard and no supplies were reaching the ships from the shore.

In computer science, satisfiability ( often written in all capitals or abbreviated SAT ) is the problem of determining if the variables of a given Boolean formula can be assigned in such a way as to make the formula evaluate to TRUE.

That briefly means that there is no known algorithm that efficiently solves all instances of SAT, and it is generally believed ( but not proven, see P versus NP problem ) that no such algorithm can exist.

The problem remains NP-complete even if all expressions are written in conjunctive normal form with 3 variables per clause ( 3-CNF ), yielding the 3SAT problem.

The same problem arose, several years later, with the Valech Report, released in 2004 and which counted almost 30, 000 victims of torture, among testimonies from 35, 000 persons.

Violent criminal activity continues to be a problem in Guatemala, including murder, rape, and armed assaults against persons of all nationalities.

Acute nervousness and stress can trigger stuttering in persons predisposed to it, and living with a highly stigmatized disability can result in anxiety and high allostatic stress load ( i. e., chronic nervousness and stress ) that reduce the amount of acute stress necessary to trigger stuttering in any given person who stutters, exacerbating the problem in the manner of a positive feedback system ; the name ' Stuttered Speech Syndrome ' has been proposed for this condition.

Part of the problem was that Johnson's orders were to restore the island to such person or persons who have " sufficient procuration or authority to receive the same ..." However, most of the former Dutch colonists had now departed, having lost hope of restoration.

Actually, “ Jewish problem ” was the name the Germans gave to their persecution of the Jews ; “ drug-abuse problem ” is the name we give to the persecution of people who use certain drugs. Szasz cites Rep. James M. Hanley referring to drug users as " vermin ," using " the same metaphor for condemning persons who use or sell illegal drugs that the Nazis used to justify murdering Jews by poison gas -- namely, that the persecuted persons are not human beings, but ' vermin.

An additional problem was that the vulgar Latin of the later Western Roman Empire had begun to diverge into the regional dialects, the precursors to today's Romance languages, that were becoming mutually unintelligible and preventing scholars from one part of Europe being able to communicate with persons from another part of Europe.

A problem is horizontal inequality, the inequality of two persons of same origin and ability.

The same redemption problem could also potentially have affected investors trying to redeem Treasury's marketable debt for cash, or persons trying to redeem non-marketable savings bonds for cash.

A group of three persons can achieve better problem solving abilities than the best three or more individuals can accomplish individually.

Organizing a software house is very specialized type of management skill, where experienced persons can turn the organizational problem into a unique benefit.

Proposed solutions to the problem of personal identity include continuity of the physical body, continuity of an immaterial mind or soul, continuity of consciousness or memory, the bundle theory of self, and proposals that there are actually no persons or selves which persist over time at all.

This problem, according to Nader, was well known by persons in the industry, but little was done to correct it.

* Family-violence battery may be limited in its scope between persons within a certain degree of relationship: statutes for this offense have been enacted in response to increasing awareness of the problem of domestic violence.

A number of persons in the legal sector believed that the best way forward was to seek the National People's Congress ( NPC ) of the People's Republic of China to amend the part of the Basic Law in order to redress the problem.

* Research is carefully recorded and reported to other persons interested in the problem.

The crux of the problem is that there is no contemporaneous account of the conflict ; writers such as Polybius, who might have met persons whose grandparents participated in the conflict, do not mention it, while the writers who do speak of the conflict, such as Livy or Cicero, report fact and fable equally readily, and invariably assume that there were no fundamental changes in Roman institutions in nearly 500 years.

One-third to one-half of all persons with thymoma have no symptoms at all, and the mass is identified on a chest X-ray or CT / CAT scan performed for an unrelated problem.

There is no evidence showing that regular allegy testing results in identification of a problem or relief for persons with chronic urticaria.

The United Nations Development Programme's 1994 Human Development Report is considered a milestone publication in the field of human security, with its argument that insuring " freedom from want " and " freedom from fear " for all persons is the best path to tackle the problem of global insecurity.

" Thus, the theistic schools emphasize that karma is one explanation for the problem of human suffering ; a soul reincarnates into an appropriate body, which is dependent on karma and this is said to explain why some persons never get to see the fruits of their actions in their lives and why some children die when they have committed no sin.

According to Mead, thought is both a social and pragmatic process, based on the model of two persons discussing how to solve a problem.