Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

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WE shall not enter upon any discussion as to the utility or inutility of such a work as the present, but simply confine ourselves to an account of its contents. It is not a work of yesterday, for the ...

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Abstract: For bit-plane coding of random source, we establish a relationship between the probability density function of an arbitrary non-negative distribution and the bit-plane symbol probability.

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