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Tucker's lemma

Tucker's lemma is a fancy math idea that helps us understand how to draw lines or planes in space in a really efficient way.

Imagine you have a bunch of dots scattered around. Now you want to draw a line that goes through some of the dots. How do you know which dots to pick so the line goes through them? Tucker's lemma helps us with this problem.

It says that we can draw a line or plane that separates the dots into two groups, so that all the dots in the first group are on one side of the line or plane, and all the dots in the other group are on the other side.

This may not sound very exciting, but it's actually really useful in many situations. For example, when we're trying to solve optimization problems (finding the best solution to a problem), we can use Tucker's lemma to help us figure out which solutions are worth considering and which we can ignore.

So, basically, Tucker's lemma is a neat tool that helps us solve math problems more efficiently.
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