INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................210 I. THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CONTEXT OF REVERSE ENGINEERING..............................................................................212 A. Intellectual Property Law and Reverse Engineering ............212 B. No Coherent Treatment of Reverse Engineering.................215 II. REVERSE ENGINEE...

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Fix a base B > 1 and let ζ have the standard exponential distribution; the distribution of digits of ζ base B is known to be very close to Benford’s law. If there exists a C such that the distribution of digits of C times the elements of some set is the same as that of ζ, we say that set exhibits shifted exponential behavior base B. Let X1, . . . , XN be i.i.d.r.v. If the Xi’s are Unif, then as...

LAW and ORDER in ALGORITHMICS An algorithm is the input-output effect of a computer program; mathematically, the notion of algorithm comes close to the notion of function. Just as arithmetic is the theory and practice of calculating with numbers, so is ALGORITHMICS the theory and practice of calculating with algorithms. Just as a law in arithmetic is an equation between numbers, like a(b + c) =...