Sticky Problem

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Updated: October 11, 2023

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	noun • a person who habitually pretends to be something he is not • a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor • a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem
	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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