Re:An algorithm for the Names at the 9/11 Memorial
by eru on Tuesday May 10, 2011 @07:12AM
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Practical here means: Occurs in practice. And that they are optimally solvable in practice is not a tautology. It could be that you would need human insight (like you still need for most proving interesting mathematical theorems), or that people would only solve approximations. (People do solve approximations, too.)
Isn't that a tautology? Because if it wasn't doable then it wouldn't be practical.