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equation

[ih-kwey-zhuhn, -shuhn] / ɪˈkweɪ ʒən, -ʃən /


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For 90 years important aspects of the problems have lacked a proof, the argument underlying a correct math equation.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

He has track and field recruiting visits to Brigham Young and Utah coming up, but football remains in the equation.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 6, 2026

They cannot necessarily take Congress out of the equation.

From Slate Sep. 1, 2026

“We have made some decisions around quality that were rooted in efficiency and cost savings. We have let our value equation erode.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 25, 2026

This was not the time to allow emotions to enter the equation.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The claim arrived hours after Tristan Buckmaster, a mathematician at New York University, and Levent Alpoge, who works at OpenAI competitor Anthropic, released their own AI-assisted work on three related equations.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

The number of messages OpenAI agents sent to resolve the Navier-Stokes problem, a series of mathematical equations that describe how liquids and gases move.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

OpenAI said its work showed that these equations can break down over time, answering the question as set out by the Millennium Prize.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

In 2021, when questioned about it in court, Bayoumi said he had the diagram because he liked finding equations and could not remember when he had written it.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Instead of trying to measure the area inside a parabola as the Greeks did, early algebraists sought to find the solutions to equations that encode relationships between different numbers.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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