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Group testing
Suppose there are two people in your household, and you wish to determine whether each one has some disease. You could use two tests, but if you’re clever you might get away with using one instead. This concept is called grouped testing and it generalizes to large-scale applications. Sometimes it’s possible to dramatically reduce the number of tests needed.
