0 very difficult or impossible to control, manage, or solve:
1 difficult or impossible to manage or control:
The system may, however, be intractable as a deterministic system in the practical sense, because it contains too many degrees of freedom.
Nevertheless, this book is an impressive assimilation of the wealth and diversity of past and present research on a highly intractable but important disease.
But this framework would be useless if it were computationally intractable.
Giving physicians an economic incentive to reduce patient services thus creates intractable ethical difficulties for physicians practicing in managed care arrangements.
Mainstream archaeologists overall have regarded gender as one of the more intractable fields of discourse in their domain.
Since very large optimization problems are intractable for complete solution methods, heuristic search methods are usually employed.
Since the number of possible structure hypotheses is more than exponential in the number of variables, this is clearly intractable in general.
Both groups faced intractable problems where resources were inadequate and no satisfactory solution was visible.
