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Finding The Sign Of A Function Value By Binary Cellular Automaton

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases 2009-11-07 v1 Condensed Matter Computational Complexity

Abstract

Given a continuous function f(x)f(x), suppose that the sign of ff only has finitely many discontinuous points in the interval [0,1][0,1]. We show how to use a sequence of one dimensional deterministic binary cellular automata to determine the sign of f(ρ)f(\rho) where ρ\rho is the (number) density of 1s in an arbitrarily given bit string of finite length provided that ff satisfies certain technical conditions.

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@article{arxiv.nlin/0103057,
  title  = {Finding The Sign Of A Function Value By Binary Cellular Automaton},
  author = {H. F. Chau and H. Xu and K. M. Lee and L. W. Siu and K. K. Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:nlin/0103057},
  year   = {2009}
}

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