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Qiaochu_Yuan comments on Algorithmic Progress in Six Domains - Less Wrong Discussion

24 Post author: lukeprog 03 August 2013 02:29AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 07 August 2013 07:28:29AM *  2 points [-]

This is common terminology in... I'm not sure exactly, but some parts of mathematics, computer science, and physics. Generally one speaks of the behavior of a problem in the regime where some parameters are large or small. Wikipedia has a related usage in the sciences.