As algebra students learn, there’s a set procedure for figuring it out: Write down two algebraic equations and solve them together. But linear ... their algorithm makes many guesses in parallel. This ...

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The new algorithm solves these two problems in “almost linear” time, which means that the algorithm’s runtime is roughly proportional to the amount of time it takes merely to write down the details ..