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  2. Move-to-front transform - Wikipedia

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    The move-to-front (MTF) transform is an encoding of data (typically a stream of bytes) designed to improve the performance of entropy encoding techniques of compression.When efficiently implemented, it is fast enough that its benefits usually justify including it as an extra step in data compression algorithm.

  3. Order (group theory) - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the symmetric group shown above, where ord(S 3) = 6, the possible orders of the elements are 1, 2, 3 or 6. The following partial converse is true for finite groups : if d divides the order of a group G and d is a prime number , then there exists an element of order d in G (this is sometimes called Cauchy's theorem ).

  4. Inverse function - Wikipedia

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    Sometimes, this multivalued inverse is called the full inverse of f, and the portions (such as √ x and − √ x) are called branches. The most important branch of a multivalued function (e.g. the positive square root) is called the principal branch , and its value at y is called the principal value of f −1 ( y ) .

  5. Parity of a permutation - Wikipedia

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    the inverse of every even permutation is even; the inverse of every odd permutation is odd; Considering the symmetric group S n of all permutations of the set {1, ..., n}, we can conclude that the map sgn: S n → {−1, 1} that assigns to every permutation its signature is a group homomorphism. [2]

  6. Function composition (computer science) - Wikipedia

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    In computer science, function composition is an act or mechanism to combine simple functions to build more complicated ones. Like the usual composition of functions in mathematics, the result of each function is passed as the argument of the next, and the result of the last one is the result of the whole.

  7. Order type - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, especially in set theory, two ordered sets X and Y are said to have the same order type if they are order isomorphic, that is, if there exists a bijection (each element pairs with exactly one in the other set) : such that both f and its inverse are monotonic (preserving orders of elements).

  8. Multiplicative order - Wikipedia

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    Even without knowledge that we are working in the multiplicative group of integers modulo n, we can show that a actually has an order by noting that the powers of a can only take a finite number of different values modulo n, so according to the pigeonhole principle there must be two powers, say s and t and without loss of generality s > t, such that a s ≡ a t (mod n).

  9. Fast Walsh–Hadamard transform - Wikipedia

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    Python example code [ edit ] import math def fwht ( a ) -> None : """In-place Fast Walsh–Hadamard Transform of array a.""" assert math . log2 ( len ( a )) . is_integer (), "length of a is a power of 2" h = 1 while h < len ( a ): # perform FWHT for i in range ( 0 , len ( a ), h * 2 ): for j in range ( i , i + h ): x = a [ j ] y = a [ j + h ] a ...