combinatorial
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In recent months, the AI companies have flaunted the capabilities of their models by trumpeting advances in combinatorial geometry and algebraic number theory, turning math into an unlikely form of advertising.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
For years, scientists have hoped to harness bacterial enzymes to create new drug variants through a process known as combinatorial biosynthesis.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
And they also showed that sperm whale codas are indeed combinatorial, similar to the compositionally shown by bonobos and chimps.
From Salon ● May 29, 2025
The minigames within Lorelei almost included Nim, an ancient combinatorial game that appears in “Last Year at Marienbad.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2024
Gene regulation—the turning on and off of genes by proteins—described the mechanism by which combinatorial complexity could be generated from the one hard copy of genetic information in a cell.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
