What is "combinatorial"

Usage examples of "combinatorial".

You can use molecular diversity or combinatorial chemistry to make the molecules with which you do the perturbation of cells and then test the hypotheses we’ve talked about.

The Gabriel possessed the decisional maximum, a nanosecond heuristics with branches to 1032, the cardinal number of the combinatorial set.

But Abu gave his answers in exponential notation, so Belbo was unable to daunt Diotallevi with a screen full of endless zeros: a pale visual imitation of the multiplication of combinatorial universes, of the exploding swarm of all possible worlds.

Father Kircher reread all the treatises on the combinatorial art, from Lullus on, and you see what he published in his Ars Magna Sciendi.

Classical logic, along with Boole's algebra, the midwives of information theory, were from the beginning burdened with a combinatorial inflexibility.

Using a method called combinatorial chemistry, chemists can generate forty thousand compounds at a time in labs, but these products are random and not uncommonly useless, whereas any natural molecule will have already passed what the Economist calls “the ultimate screening programme: over three and a half billion years of evolution.

It took awhile -- the trees of acceptable substitutions were multi-branched, intertwined, close to a combinatorial explosion, challenging even for the AIs.

Phillida sat with her and introduced her to combinatorial mathematics, the theory of games - to different forms of wonder.

There has been some encouraging technical news, with new techniques such as rational drug design and computer-assisted combinatorial chemistry.