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I suppose this should belong in a blog or a post but it's more of a question because I don't present anything, but I merely pose an interesting question and wondered if anyone was up to the challenge.  This is also related to Deconstructiong a wave http://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/124373-Deconstruct-A-Waveform-Into-Its-Fundamental

Recently I read an interesting...

I have gotten some comments about my new avatar, including a few commenting that while my picture is clear on the blog contributors sidebar, it is "blurry" on my blog posts. I just wanted clear this up.  I am not in the witness protection program; I just really love singular values.  My new avatar, just like my old one, is a rank 4 approximation of a picture of me using the singular value decomposition.

Continuing on in this series of posts, here is a way to test the randomness of a sequence of bits from a PRNG that is the appropriate to the first morning back after the August long weekend.  It is a very fast, and not very formal test done by checking how well a sequence compresses. This is really easy in Maple 14, with the new commands ?StringTools:-Compress and StringTools:-Uncompress which use ...