Polar codes provably achieve the capacity of a wide array of channels under successive decoding. This assumes infinite precision arithmetic. Given the successive nature of the decoding algorithm, one might worry about the sensitivity of the performance to ...
A large portion of software is used for numerical computation in mathematics, physics and engineering. Among the aspects that make verification in this domain difficult is the need to quantify numerical errors, such as roundoff errors and errors due to the ...
It is an old problem of Danzer and Rogers to decide whether it is possible arrange O(1/epsilon) points in the unit square so that every rectangle of area epsilon contains at least one of them. We show that the answer to this question is in the negative if ...