Faster computers have greatly expanded the size and complexity of optimization problems that can be solved.
P stands for the class of problems that can be solved in polynomial time, or reasonably quickly.
In academia, the focus is on problems that can be solved, proved and published — not messy, intractable challenges.
"Border security and immigration are not one-dimensional problems that can be solved by more boots on the border".
They are problems that can be solved, or they can't be solved, and they're a little painful, perhaps, but they are not going to take your life away".
"It's not perfect, and it never will be, but I think there are a lot of problems that can be solved with license plate readers," he said.
And the excesses of advertising — when patients ask for drugs they don't need — are problems that can be solved by doctors and insurers doing their jobs.
There are many sexual problems that can be solved, or partly solved, simply through better communication, advice about better technique, or reassurance.
"The issues we have with them look less like problems that can be solved and more like conditions that we have to manage".
These are not problems that can be solved by a bail-out.Anyway, as White House supporters are not slow to explain, some states have coped.
The idea of the talks, says Robert Cooper, the EU official in charge, is to solve problems that can be solved.
