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noun • (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein • a harmful or corrupting agency • a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer | ||||||||
28% | 13 | A pattern in which the solution to a problem creates another problem, leading back to the original problem | ||||||
noun • one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first • an argument that assumes that which is to be proved | ||||||||
20% | 15 | Method in complexity theory to show that a problem is at least as hard as another problem | ||||||
noun • changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | ||||||||
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Updated: February 15, 2025
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