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The probability of getting a positive result for a given test which should produce a positive result.

Three sets of three lines such that each line is incident with two from both other sets.

The unit of solid angle. The solid angle corresponding to all of space being subtended is 4pi steradians.

Let the stick number s(K) of a knot K be the least number of straight sticks needed to make a knot K. The smallest stick number of any knot is s(T)=6, where T is the trefoil ...

A method of stochastic optimization including techniques such as gradient search or Robbins-Monro stochastic approximation.

A function f(t) of one or more parameters containing a noise term epsilon(t) f(t)=L(t)+epsilon(t), where the noise is (without loss of generality) assumed to be additive.

If 0<=g(x)<=1 and g is nonincreasing on the interval [0, 1], then for all possible values of a and b, int_0^1g(x^(1/(a+b)))dx>=int_0^1g(x^(1/a))dxint_0^1g(x^(1/b))dx.

A string figure is any pattern produced when a looped string is spanned between two hands and is twisted and woven in various manners around the fingers and the wrists. The ...

The p-adic norm satisfies |x+y|_p<=max(|x|_p,|y|_p) for all x and y.

The series of Sturm functions arising in application of the Sturm theorem.