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
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
“But the fact that they have this combinatorial basis is already very interesting.”
From Science Magazine ● May 7, 2024
They indulge as well in reductio ad absurdum, the logical practice of taking any premise to an extreme, and in various sorts of combinatorial word play.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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