plural of Bongard problem

plural of toy problem

(sciences) A simplified problem with clear constraints and parameters, usually used as a tool to understand a related real-world problem.

(computing, slang) A problem that should be easily resolved.

plural of year 2000 problem

plural of one-banana problem

(statistics) The bias to meta-analysis resulting from statistical studies with low statistical power tending to remain unpublished and inaccessible to the analyst.

plural of file-drawer problem

The problem of finding the motion, relative to one another, of two objects, where the position of each affects the motion of the other.

(mathematics, UK, Canada) The problem in combinatorial optimization in which, given a number of cities and the costs of travelling from one to the other, it is required to determine the cheapest route that visits each city once and then returns to the initial city.