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coinomega

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    Comment #28297435

    Being a monopoly (or to be precise: to be in a dominant position), is not problematic in EU competition law. It is the abuse of said position that is illegal! https://ec.europa.eu/…

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    Comment #12534458

    Very simple script, and only confirms what has been posted several times here. However interesting scenario when the game master reveals a door with a goat, and the player does not…

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    Comment #12462659

    Aware subscript k is not displayed correctly on mobile, but formatting on Medium is generally not great when it comes to formulas

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    Comment #12227370

    > "Bitwise" is really shorthand for "this is an operation that acts on the representation of a number in base-2, rather than on the number itself" I would argue that while bitwise …

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    Comment #12227002

    ∧ is also the notation for bitwise AND http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/fips-180-4....

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    Comment #12226879

    I used the notations found in FIPS 180-4 http://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/FIPS/NIST.FIPS.180-4.pdf

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    Comment #12226500

    Assuming you actually care about the answer, this just help me drew the exploratory graph, and this property was useful to fill in cells for which operands were equal. Finding obvi…

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    Comment #12226031

    The function which to any integer a associates f(a, a) with f defined as in the article is the identity function on the natural integer set.

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    Comment #12225853

    corrected

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    Comment #12225838

    I don't think you need to be so unforgiving? If you want extra precision, a -> f(a, a) is Id. Knowing that helped me understand one property of the chart, never said that was the m…

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    Comment #12224482

    Fair, changed paragraph to "While the result is easily computed and the process easily understood in base 2 (i.e., using the ‘bit strings as language’ lens), the AND function writt…

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    Comment #12224426

    Hello Chris, author here! AND is not multiplication in base 2 :) The point of the article was to make sense of the apparent complicatedness of the math formula through nice visuals…