lower bound
[ loh-er ]
nounMathematics.
an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set: The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
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One focus of Williams’s research is to make lower bounds constructive and concrete—mathematical objects with describable features.
The 50-year-old problem that eludes theoretical computer science | Siobhan Roberts | October 27, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewThis was a clever way to identify lower bounds on the sizes of anti-isosceles grids with too many points to exhaustively handle.
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Scientific definitions for lower bound
lower bound
A number that is less than or equal to every number in a given set.
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