combinatorial

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And they also showed that sperm whale codas are indeed combinatorial, similar to the compositionally shown by bonobos and chimps.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

The minigames within Lorelei almost included Nim, an ancient combinatorial game that appears in “Last Year at Marienbad.”

From New York Times • May 15, 2024

This combinatorial power is a key building block of human speech, which mixes a finite number of sounds into a vast array of words to convey information.

From Science Magazine • May 7, 2024

Instead of all the many combinatorial possibilities, many fewer "subspaces" of activity actually arise, because neurons are coordinated, rather than independent.

From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2024

Simple combinatorial mathematics yielded twenty-seven unique combinations of these six gene variants.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee