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- In probability theory and statistics, the Poisson distribution is a discrete probability distribution that expresses the probability of a given number...81 KB (11,246 words) - 21:10, 21 June 2024
- The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern...138 KB (16,090 words) - 02:55, 7 July 2024
- RSA (Rivest–Shamir–Adleman) is a public-key cryptosystem, one of the oldest widely used for secure data transmission. The initialism "RSA" comes from the...61 KB (7,868 words) - 17:39, 2 July 2024
- Look up trapezoid in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In geometry, a trapezoid (/ˈtræpəzɔɪd/) in North American English, or trapezium (/trəˈpiːziəm/) in...25 KB (3,095 words) - 02:51, 9 July 2024
- In ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data. The type of average taken as most typically representative...29 KB (3,249 words) - 10:53, 30 May 2024
- Minimax (sometimes Minmax, MM or saddle point) is a decision rule used in artificial intelligence, decision theory, game theory, statistics, and philosophy...27 KB (3,810 words) - 09:19, 10 July 2024
- In geometry, a Coxeter–Dynkin diagram (or Coxeter diagram, Coxeter graph) is a graph with numerically labeled edges (called branches) representing a Coxeter...57 KB (3,213 words) - 04:13, 8 July 2024
- Brahmagupta (c. 598 – c. 668 CE) was an Indian mathematician and astronomer. He is the author of two early works on mathematics and astronomy: the Brāhmasphuṭasiddhānta...45 KB (5,879 words) - 13:50, 30 June 2024
- In differential calculus, there is no single uniform notation for differentiation. Instead, various notations for the derivative of a function or variable...35 KB (5,086 words) - 12:25, 21 May 2024
- Algebra can essentially be considered as doing computations similar to those of arithmetic but with non-numerical mathematical objects. However, until...120 KB (16,877 words) - 08:40, 22 May 2024
- A longitudinal study (or longitudinal survey, or panel study) is a research design that involves repeated observations of the same variables (e.g., people)...32 KB (1,546 words) - 10:50, 9 May 2024
- Approximations for the mathematical constant pi (π) in the history of mathematics reached an accuracy within 0.04% of the true value before the beginning...87 KB (12,415 words) - 14:18, 7 July 2024
- Mathematics emerged independently in China by the 11th century BCE. The Chinese independently developed a real number system that includes significantly...60 KB (7,962 words) - 16:40, 16 June 2024
- In mathematics, transfinite numbers or infinite numbers are numbers that are "infinite" in the sense that they are larger than all finite numbers. These...10 KB (1,230 words) - 01:37, 12 June 2024
- A multiplication algorithm is an algorithm (or method) to multiply two numbers. Depending on the size of the numbers, different algorithms are more efficient...45 KB (6,422 words) - 06:12, 8 April 2024
- bcrypt is a password-hashing function designed by Niels Provos and David Mazières, based on the Blowfish cipher and presented at USENIX in 1999. Besides...26 KB (2,753 words) - 04:19, 2 July 2024
- In mathematics, the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process is a stochastic process with applications in financial mathematics and the physical sciences. Its original...30 KB (4,605 words) - 13:54, 18 June 2024
- Causal inference is the process of determining the independent, actual effect of a particular phenomenon that is a component of a larger system. The main...38 KB (4,407 words) - 11:44, 31 March 2024
- A megaprime is a prime number with at least one million decimal digits. Other terms for large primes include "titanic prime", coined by Samuel Yates in...4 KB (357 words) - 18:38, 18 April 2024
- Counting rods (筭) are small bars, typically 3–14 cm (1" to 6") long, that were used by mathematicians for calculation in ancient East Asia. They are placed...25 KB (2,047 words) - 19:19, 6 July 2024