Algebraic Equation
uplinks:: Algebra tags:: #lang/en Algebraic Equation A statement of the equality of two algebraic expressions e.g. 2x + 7 = 12 See Also References https://www.britannica.com/science/algebraic-equation
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Algebraic Expression
uplinks:: Algebra tags:: #lang/en Algebraic Expression An expression built up from integer constants, variables, and algebraic operations (e.g. addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, raising to a power, and extraction of a root.) e.g. 2x + 7, See Also Algebraic Equation References
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Altcoin
Altcoin An altcoin is an alternative cryptocurrency to Bitcoin Examples Litecoin Peercoin References See Also
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Applied Mathematics
uplinks:: Mathematics tags:: #lang/en #type/term Applied Mathematics The study of applications of mathematics in different fields — computer science, finance, physics and business Topics Cryptography Probability Statistics References See Also
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Arithmetic
uplinks:: Number Theory tags:: #lang/en #type/term Arithmetic A branch of mathematics that deals with the study of numbers using various operations on them — addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation, and extraction of roots. Modular Arithmetic References https://en.wikipedia.…
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BIP32 and Ed25519
uplinks:: BIP32 tags:: #lang/en #type/term BIP32 and Ed25519 Ed25519 is not compatible with BIP32 due to its small cofactor and also due to its "bit clamping" (used to prevent attacks: 1, 2) as discussed in these threads: https://moderncrypto.org/mail-archive/curves/2017/000858.html https://modernc…
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BIP32
uplinks:: Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIP) BIP32 The most commonly used large-scale key management technology is the layered deterministic wallet technology proposed in the BIP32 standard. In addition to solving the issue of backing up a large number of private keys, the reason why this technolo…
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BLS Signatures
uplinks:: Digital Signature Scheme tags:: #lang/en #type/term #note/develop BLS Signatures A cryptographic signature scheme based on pairings BLS stands for Boneh–Lynn–Shacham References https://medium.com/cryptoadvance/bls-signatures-better-than-schnorr-5a7fe30ea716
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Binary
uplinks:: Numeral System Binary A base-2 numeral system A method to write numbers using two symbols: 0 and 1 Each digit is referred to as a Bit, or binary digit Used by computers References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_number See Also Hexadecimal Decimal
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Bit
uplinks:: Binary tags:: #type/term #lang/en Bit Short for Binary Digit The smallest unit of data in computing A bit has only two possible values: 0 or 1 Bits are usually grouped into groups of 8 bits called bytes References See Also
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