The Complexity of Approximating the Entropy
โ Scribed by Batu, Tugkan; Dasgupta, Sanjoy; Kumar, Ravi; Rubinfeld, Ronitt
- Book ID
- 118181168
- Publisher
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0097-5397
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