(philosophy) the philosophical problem involving our ethical obligations to future persons which derives from the observation that different courses of action will result in entirely different, or nonidentical, persons coming to be.

plural of Cauchy problem

plural of problem bear

A bear that poses a danger to humans because it has adapted to human activities or habitat.

plural of diamond problem

(mathematics) The problem of deciding whether a given expression is equal to zero.

The problem of determining the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of a given number of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law.

plural of problem play

(theater) A form of drama that emerged in the 19th century as part of realism, dealing with contentious social issues through debates between the characters on stage, who typically represent conflicting points of view within a realistic social context.

(computing theory) The problem of finding an adequate collection of axioms making up a viable description of the world for a robot or artificial intelligence.