средняя, сферическая в вакууме, задача
English translation: hypothetical (task)
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| 4 | a purely abstract problem / a purely theoretical problem |
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a purely abstract problem / a purely theoretical problem Explanation: Научный юмор — Википедия https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Сферический_конь_в_вакууме Spherical cow - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow Google links: "сферическая в вакууме, задача" https://www.google.com/search?q="сферическая в вакууме, зада... "a purely abstract problem" https://www.google.com/search?q="a purely abstract problem" "a purely theoretical problem" https://www.google.com/search?q="a purely theoretical proble... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 43 mins (2018-07-05 02:53:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Another option: a common spherical cow problem / a common spherical chicken problem -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 45 mins (2018-07-05 02:55:41 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I believe that in this case средняя means обычная, заурядная. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2018-07-05 03:19:34 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, it looks like I misunderstood what you said: Not the problem but its complexity is средняя, сферическая в вакууме! Correction: средняя, сферическая в вакууме, задача -> a run-of-the-mill problem -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2018-07-05 03:22:55 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I mean you don’t need to translate сферическая в вакууме because it’s just an extravagant way to say that the problem is nothing special. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 5 hrs (2018-07-05 07:38:01 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, I did not mean a hypothetical problem. The phrase сферический конь в вакууме, among other things, can refer to a complex real-life problem that has been grossly oversimplified and reduced to a purely theoretical problem that can be more easily tackled using available (for example, mathematical) methods. But, as I said above, now I believe that in this case, средняя, сферическая в вакууме simply means nothing special, perfectly average, or something like that. Google link: "сферическая в вакууме" https://www.google.com/search?q="сферическая в вакууме" |
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