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noun
The set of choices of players' strategies for which no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy assuming that the other players keep theirs unchanged.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: computing, engineering, game-theory, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
(game theory) a stable state of a system that involves several interacting participants in which no participant can gain by a change of strategy as long as all the other participants remain unchanged
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: equilibrium
History
Named after American mathematician John Forbes Nash Jr.
Across languages
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