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  • adjective mathematics Having a unique solution whose value changes only slightly if initial conditions change slightly

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Examples

  • He is convinced that, with the Internet, kids can learn by themselves, so long as they are in small groups and have well-posed questions to answer.

    Turning Kids From India's Slums Into Autodidacts MATT RIDLEY 2010

  • Not just that Diadiun won't respond to the only reader question submitted, but that he won't respond to a very well-posed question by blogger Tim Russo: "Please name one instance in which the Cleveland Plain Dealer's content was grabbed and put on some else's website for free, in its entirety, outside of fair use."

    Railing against the tubes 2009

  • So, Anil Dash, PR * expert* (see the well-posed speaking pose in the picture at the top of the page and the amazing comment-everywhere-explain-nothing approach to livejournal changes) has decided what is tactful on the part of Apple! it invariably makes the complainer look worse than the ostensible target it invariably makes the complainer look worse than the ostensible target it invariably makes the complainer look worse than the ostensible target

    Smug Ugly - Anil Dash 2007

  • Just once I'd like to see AlphaLiberal make a point that is logically well-posed.

    Today's blogging has a theme... I see. Ann Althouse 2009

  • T. R. Elliot: could you please provide a specific, well-posed argument contradicting my explanation about why unionization does not accomplish the goals it claims to?

    Economic Fallacies, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • But it's not always easy to squeeze everyone into a single, well-posed, properly-lighted shot.

    How to take that great holiday photo 2008

  • But it's not always easy to squeeze everyone into a single, well-posed, properly-lighted shot.

    How to take that great holiday photo 2008

  • Deutsch asks us to imagine an “oracle,” a black box which will correctly answer any well-posed empirical question we ask of it.

    Science and Unobservable Things Sean 2008

  • I think that this means that initial-value, boundary-value problems based on the equations, given that the boundary condition specifications are consistent with the eigenvectors, is well-posed.

    Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit 2007

  • Note that if you have a model for signal and noise (statistical or frequency domain description), the filtering problem is quite trivial to solve (should I say, it is well-posed problem).

    Unthreaded #9 « Climate Audit 2007

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