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  2. Floor and ceiling functions - Wikipedia

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    However, the same term, integer part, is also used for truncation towards zero, which differs from the floor function for negative numbers. For an integer n , ⌊ n ⌋ = ⌈ n ⌉ = n . Although floor( x + 1) and ceil( x ) produce graphs that appear exactly alike, they are not the same when the value of x is an exact integer.

  3. Likelihood function - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] [3] When evaluated on the actual data points, it becomes a function solely of the model parameters. In maximum likelihood estimation , the argument that maximizes the likelihood function serves as a point estimate for the unknown parameter, while the Fisher information (often approximated by the likelihood's Hessian matrix at the ...

  4. e (mathematical constant) - Wikipedia

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    The number e is a mathematical constant approximately equal to 2.71828 that is the base of the natural logarithm and exponential function.It is sometimes called Euler's number, after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, though this can invite confusion with Euler numbers, or with Euler's constant, a different constant typically denoted .

  5. Mathematical constant - Wikipedia

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    The square root of 2 is equal to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle with legs of length 1. The square root of 2, often known as root 2 or Pythagoras' constant, and written as √ 2, is the unique positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number 2. It is more precisely called the principal square root ...

  6. Rational number - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, "rational" is often used as a noun abbreviating "rational number". The adjective rational sometimes means that the coefficients are rational numbers. For example, a rational point is a point with rational coordinates (i.e., a point whose coordinates are rational numbers); a rational matrix is a matrix of rational numbers; a rational polynomial may be a polynomial with rational ...

  7. Interval (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the set of real numbers consisting of 0, 1, and all numbers in between is an interval, denoted [0, 1] and called the unit interval; the set of all positive real numbers is an interval, denoted (0, ∞); the set of all real numbers is an interval, denoted (−∞, ∞); and any single real number a is an interval, denoted [a, a].

  8. Percentage point - Wikipedia

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    A percentage point or percent point is the unit for the arithmetic difference between two percentages.For example, moving up from 40 percent to 44 percent is an increase of 4 percentage points (although it is a 10-percent increase in the quantity being measured, if the total amount remains the same). [1]

  9. Magic square - Wikipedia

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    For odd square, since there are (n - 1)/2 same sided rows or columns, there are (n - 1)(n - 3)/8 pairs of such rows or columns that can be interchanged. Thus, there are 2 (n - 1)(n - 3)/8 × 2 (n - 1)(n - 3)/8 = 2 (n - 1)(n - 3)/4 equivalent magic squares obtained by combining such interchanges. Interchanging all the same sided rows flips each ...