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Analytic Combinatorics – A Worked Example

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105 points mathgenius | 2 comments | 08 Apr 25 17:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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globnomulous ◴[08 Apr 25 23:22 UTC] No.43627446[source]▶
This article is technically way beyond me, but can anybody explain to me what on earth a "worked example" is? That expression is completely incoherent.
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1. getnormality ◴[08 Apr 25 23:48 UTC] No.43627578[source]▶
It's an idiom in math meaning "a problem, together with its solution, that illustrates a general principle or technique".

A worked example of the quadratic formula would be solving a particular equation by plugging in values of a, b, c into the formula.

A worked example of analytic combinatorics is solving a combinatorics problem with techniques from real/complex analysis.

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2. globnomulous ◴[09 Apr 25 04:51 UTC] No.43628975[source]▶
Thanks, I get it now: I'm even more ignorant than I thought.