• Natanael@slrpnk.net
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    These types of abstract problems often get applied to physics or various optimization problems where efficient solutions can save a ton of work or enable new techniques

    • Steve@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      But this seems to claim it solves some practical problem with parties. I don’t know what that problems.

      • Natanael@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        It’s about what combinations of “nodes” with specific relations to others are possible in a group of different sizes

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        That’s just a simple way to phrase the problem in concrete terms. The immediate applications are usually not of interest, unlike the novel techniques with which hard problems are solved.