A Small Problem is a British sitcom originally broadcast on BBC2 in 1987. Intended as a satire on prejudice, and starring Christopher Ryan who had previously...

been described as "a masterpiece of understatement": Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have...

computational complexity, the travelling salesman problem (TSP) asks the following question: "Given a list of cities and the distances between each pair...

them. Once the smaller problems are solved, the big problem as a whole has been solved. Therefore a given object for a small problem only needs to know...

methods. The three-body problem is a special case of the n-body problem. Historically, the first specific three-body problem to receive extended study...

Hilbert's fifth problem is the fifth mathematical problem from the problem list publicized in 1900 by mathematician David Hilbert, and concerns the characterization...

number of constraints or limitations. CSPs represent the entities in a problem as a homogeneous collection of finite constraints over variables, which is...

In probability theory, the birthday problem asks for the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, at least two will share the same birthday...

for Comic Relief. In 1987, he starred in the short-lived BBC sitcom A Small Problem. He played Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot at the Queen's...

The knapsack problem is the following problem in combinatorial optimization: Given a set of items, each with a weight and a value, determine which items...

Problem solving is the process of achieving a goal by overcoming obstacles, a frequent part of most activities. Problems in need of solutions range from...

The trolley problem is a series of thought experiments in ethics, psychology, and artificial intelligence involving stylized ethical dilemmas of whether...

all problems of American small business enterprises. On October 8, 1940, the Senate established the Special Committee to Study and Survey Problems of Small...

its name comes from its first volume, The Three-Body Problem, named after a classical physics problem dealing with Newton's laws of motion and gravitation...

The secretary problem demonstrates a scenario involving optimal stopping theory that is studied extensively in the fields of applied probability, statistics...

essentially divides a large problem (e.g. the full sequence) into a series of smaller problems, and it uses the solutions to the smaller problems to find an optimal...

The term year 2000 problem, or simply Y2K, refers to potential computer errors related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and...

3-SAT problem in a considerable number of smaller problems. Each of these smaller problems is then encoded as a relation between a checksum and a packet...

In operations research, the cutting-stock problem is the problem of cutting standard-sized pieces of stock material, such as paper rolls or sheet metal...

Thomson problem of minimizing the total Coulomb force of electrons in a spherical arrangement. Thus far, solutions have been proven only for small numbers...

flatness problem (also known as the oldness problem) is a cosmological fine-tuning problem within the Big Bang model of the universe. Such problems arise...

Borsuk's problem on upper and lower bounds for the number of smaller-diameter subsets needed to cover a bounded n-dimensional set. The covering problem of Rado:...

breaks the problem into "solvable" and "perturbative" parts. In regular perturbation theory, the solution is expressed as a power series in a small parameter...

In computability theory, the halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether...

include constrained problems and multimodal problems. An optimization problem can be represented in the following way: Given: a function f : A → R {\displaystyle...

Nipmuck Trail, or other such preserve. Soil erosion is a small problem along some stretches. The USGS has a river flow and height monitoring station posted in...

assignment problem is a fundamental combinatorial optimization problem. In its most general form, the problem is as follows: The problem instance has a number...

Build a Problem is the debut studio album by the English singer-songwriter dodie. Previously, dodie released three extended plays (EPs): Intertwined (2016)...

Josephus problem (or Josephus permutation) is a theoretical problem related to a certain counting-out game. Such games are used to pick out a person from a group...

Rectangle packing is a packing problem where the objective is to determine whether a given set of small rectangles can be placed inside a given large polygon...