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An Optimal Method To Combine Results From Different Experiments, Theodore P. Hill, Jack Miller
An Optimal Method To Combine Results From Different Experiments, Theodore P. Hill, Jack Miller
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This article describes an optimal method (conflation) to consolidate data from different experiments, and illustrates the advantages of conflation by graphical examples involving gaussian input distributions, and by a concrete numerical example involving the values of lattice spacing of silicon crystals used in determination of the current values of Planck's constant and the Avogadro constant.
Ham Sandwich With Mayo: A Stronger Conclusion To The Classical Ham Sandwich Theorem, John H. Elton, Theodore P. Hill
Ham Sandwich With Mayo: A Stronger Conclusion To The Classical Ham Sandwich Theorem, John H. Elton, Theodore P. Hill
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The conclusion of the classical ham sandwich theorem of Banach and Steinhaus may be strengthened: there always exists a common bisecting hyperplane that touches each of the sets, that is, intersects the closure of each set. Hence, if the knife is smeared with mayonnaise, a cut can always be made so that it will not only simultaneously bisect each of the ingredients, but it will also spread mayonnaise on each. A discrete analog of this theorem says that n finite nonempty sets in n-dimensional Euclidean space can always be simultaneously bisected by a single hyperplane that contains at least one …