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general solution

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noun

Mathematics.
  1. a solution to a differential equation that contains arbitrary, unevaluated constants.


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Competitive excel has been around for about 20 years and is essentially a puzzle solving competition, thinking logically about how you can create a general solution to a question which is scalable and fast.

From BBC Dec. 1, 2025

I’m beginning to think that the fire issue is so pervasive in so many of its manifestations that we can’t have a general solution, but neither do we need a universal response.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 14, 2025

In our recent study, my colleagues and I found a simpler and more general solution to the water paradox.

From Salon Nov. 15, 2022

Unfortunately, to find the general solution to a second-order differential equation, it is not enough to find any two solutions and then combine them.

From Textbooks Mar. 30, 2016

Wealth was the general solution, but this I knew to be no solution at all; for Wyatt had told me that she neither brought him a dollar nor had any expectations from any source whatever.

From Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories by Joseph Lewis French

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