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Christine kelley works in coding theory and applied discrete mathematics. In 1948, claude shannon published a mathematical theory of communication, an article in two parts in the july and october issues of the bell system technical journal. Discrete mathematics introduction to number theory 219 divisibility i given two integers a and b where a 6 0. It is a contemporary field of mathematics widely used in business and industry.
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