Bongard problem

noun

A kind of puzzle in which there is one common factor in a first set of diagrams that is missing from a second set. The solver (possibly a computer program) must identify this factor.

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Meanings

nounBongard problem (plural Bongard problems)

plural Bongard problems

  1. A kind of puzzle in which there is one common factor in a first set of diagrams that is missing from a second set. The solver (possibly a computer program) must identify this factor.

Origin

After their inventor, the Russian computer scientist Mikhail Moiseevich Bongard (Михаил Моисеевич Бонгард, 1924—1971).

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