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===Symmetry of optimization problems=== It is also possible to ''start'' with the functor ''F'', and pose the following (vague) question: is there a problem to which ''F'' is the most efficient solution? The notion that ''F'' is the ''most efficient solution'' to the problem posed by ''G'' is, in a certain rigorous sense, equivalent to the notion that ''G'' poses the ''most difficult problem'' that ''F'' solves. This gives the intuition behind the fact that adjoint functors occur in pairs: if ''F'' is left adjoint to ''G'', then ''G'' is right adjoint to ''F''.
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