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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

The et term is a solution to the complementary equation, so we don’t need to carry that term into our general solution explicitly.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

The general solution to this puzzle is difficult.

From The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems by Dudeney, Henry Ernest

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