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We correct a paper previously submitted to CoRR. That paper claimed that the algorithm there described was provably of linear time complexity in the average case. The alleged proof of that statement contained an error, being based on an…
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Power series in which the summand satisfies a linear recurrence relation with polynomial coefficients are shown to be the solution of a linear differential or algebraic equation. Solving the associated differential or algebraic equation…
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Let $R$ be an associative ring with identity and let $N$ be a nil ideal of $R$. It is shown that units of $R/N$ can be lifted to units in $R$. Under some mild conditions on the ring, a procedure is given to determine those lifted units in a…
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