Constraint counting
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In mathematics
, constraint counting is a crude but often useful way of counting the number of free functions needed to specify a solution to a partial differential equation
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Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
, constraint counting is a crude but often useful way of counting the number of free functions needed to specify a solution to a partial differential equation
Partial differential equation
In mathematics, partial differential equations are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function of several independent variables and their partial derivatives with respect to those variables...
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