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  • 1Affine arithmetic — (AA) is a model for self validated numerical analysis. In AA, the quantities of interest are represented as affine combinations (affine forms) of certain primitive variables, which stand for sources of uncertainty in the data or approximations… …

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  • 2Affine cipher — Demonstration of an affine cipher using 17x + 5. First the letters are converted into numbers between 0 and 25, then 17x+5 is taken for each, then the results are reduced mod 26, then these are translated back into letters. The Affine cipher is a …

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  • 3Affine pricing — In economics, affine pricing is a situation where buying more than zero of a good gains a fixed benefit or cost, and each purchase after that gains a per unit benefit or cost.Where: T is the total price paid, q is the quantity in units purchased …

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  • 4Affine shape adaptation — is a methodology for iteratively adapting the shape of the smoothing kernels in an affine group of smoothing kernels to the local image structure in neighbourhood region of a specific image point. Equivalently, affine shape adaptation can be… …

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  • 5Affine curvature — This article is about the curvature of affine plane curves, not to be confused with the curvature of an affine connection. Special affine curvature, also known as the equi affine curvature or affine curvature, is a particular type of curvature… …

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  • 6Affine focal set — In mathematics, and especially affine differential geometry, the affine focal set of a smooth submanifold M embedded in a smooth manifold N is the caustic generated by the affine normal lines. It can be realised as the bifurcation set of a… …

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  • 7Function field of an algebraic variety — In algebraic geometry, the function field of an algebraic variety V consists of objects which are interpreted as rational functions on V . In complex algebraic geometry these are meromorphic functions and their higher dimensional analogues; in… …

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  • 8Affine connection — An affine connection on the sphere rolls the affine tangent plane from one point to another. As it does so, the point of contact traces out a curve in the plane: the development. In the branch of mathematics called differential geometry, an… …

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  • 9Affine transformation — In geometry, an affine transformation or affine map or an affinity (from the Latin, affinis , connected with ) between two vector spaces (strictly speaking, two affine spaces) consists of a linear transformation followed by a translation::x… …

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  • 10Function field (scheme theory) — In algebraic geometry, the function field KX of a scheme X is a generalization of the notion of a sheaf of rational functions on a variety. In the case of varieties, such a sheaf associates to each open set U the ring of all rational functions on …

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