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  2. Trial and error - Wikipedia

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  3. Trial division - Wikipedia

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    Trial division is the most laborious but easiest to understand of the integer factorization algorithms. The essential idea behind trial division tests to see if an integer n, the integer to be factored, can be divided by each number in turn that is less than the square root of n. For example, for the integer n = 12, the only numbers that divide ...

  4. Fermat's factorization method - Wikipedia

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    Fermat's factorization method, named after Pierre de Fermat, is based on the representation of an odd integer as the difference of two squares : That difference is algebraically factorable as ; if neither factor equals one, it is a proper factorization of N . Each odd number has such a representation. Indeed, if is a factorization of N, then.

  5. Design of experiments - Wikipedia

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    Design of experiments with full (left), with second-degree polynomial (right) The design of experiments ( DOE or DOX ), also known as experiment design or experimental design, is the design of any task that aims to describe and explain the variation of information under conditions that are hypothesized to reflect the variation.

  6. Factor analysis - Wikipedia

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    Canonical factor analysis, also called Rao's canonical factoring, is a different method of computing the same model as PCA, which uses the principal axis method. Canonical factor analysis seeks factors that have the highest canonical correlation with the observed variables. Canonical factor analysis is unaffected by arbitrary rescaling of the data.

  7. Edisonian approach - Wikipedia

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    Inventor Nikola Tesla is quoted as saying "[Edison's] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance intervened and, at first, I was almost a sorry witness of his doings, knowing that just a little theory and calculation would have saved him 90 percent of the labour ...

  8. Error analysis (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    The analysis of errors computed using the global positioning system is important for understanding how GPS works, and for knowing what magnitude errors should be expected. The Global Positioning System makes corrections for receiver clock errors and other effects but there are still residual errors which are not corrected.

  9. Replication (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    Replication (statistics) In engineering, science, and statistics, replication is the process of repeating a study or experiment under the same or similar conditions to support the original claim, which crucial to confirm the accuracy of results as well as for identifying and correcting the flaws in the original experiment. [1]