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100.18 Newton's semicircle and the probability integral

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 June 2016

Hsuan-Chi Chen
Hsuan-Chi Chen*
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Anderson School of Management, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA e-mail: chenh@unm.edu
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 100 , Issue 548 , July 2016 , pp. 317 - 321
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