New method for making effective calculations in 'high-dimensional space'

Researchers have developed a new method for making effective calculations in "high-dimensional space" – and proved its worth by using it to solve a 93-dimensional problem. Researchers have developed a new technique for making calculations in "high-dimensional space" – mathematical problems so wide-ranging in their scope, that they seem at first to be beyond the limits of human calculation. In what sounds like the title of a rejected script for an Indiana Jones movie, the method improves on existing approaches to beat a well-known problem known as "The Curse Of Dimensionality". It was devised by a team of researchers at the University of Cambridge. In rough terms, the "Curse", refers to the apparent impossibility of making calculations in situations where the number of variables, attributes, and possible outcomes is so large that it seems futile even to try to comprehend the problem in the first place.