- An
approximation is
anything that is
intentionally similar but not
exactly equal to
something else. The word
approximation is
derived from
Latin approximatus...
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expansion used in the
approximation. The expressions: a zeroth-order
approximation, a first-order
approximation, a second-order
approximation, and so
forth are...
- mathematics, Stirling's
approximation (or Stirling's formula) is an
asymptotic approximation for factorials. It is a good
approximation,
leading to accurate...
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Rational approximation may
refer to:
Diophantine approximation, the
approximation of real
numbers by
rational numbers Padé
approximation, the
approximation of...
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Boussinesq approximation may
refer to
several modelling concepts – as
introduced by
Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842–1929), a
French mathematician and...
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molecular physics, the Born–Oppenheimer (BO)
approximation is the best-known
mathematical approximation in
molecular dynamics. Specifically, it is the...
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successive approximation are a
category of
strategies in pure and
applied mathematics.
Successive approximation also may
refer to:
Successive approximation ADC...
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approximation capabilities of the
feedforward architecture on the
space of
continuous functions between two
Euclidean spaces, and the
approximation is...
- In mathematics, a
linear approximation is an
approximation of a
general function using a
linear function (more precisely, an
affine function). They are...
- In
geometric optics, the
paraxial approximation is a small-angle
approximation used in
Gaussian optics and ray
tracing of
light through an
optical system...