We study real-life problems via mathematical models, which usually tend to be nonlinear systems, or equations. A standard trick is to “linearize” this nonlinear system. The newly obtained system then ...

We show that the binary expansions of algebraic numbers do not form secure pseudorandom sequences; given sufficiently many initial bits of an algebraic number, its minimal polynomial can be ...

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