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On the Hausdorff Distance Between the Shifted Heaviside Function and Some Generic Growth Functions


Vol. 3, Issue 10, PP. 73-77, October 2016

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Keywords: Sigmoid functions, Heaviside function, Turner– Bradley–Kirk–Pruitt generic function, Hausdorff distance, Upper and lower bounds

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In this paper we study the one–sided Hausdorff distance between the shifted Heaviside function and some generic growth function such as Turner–Bradley–Kirk–Pruitt function. Numerical examples are presented using CAS MATHEMATICA


    1. Nikolay Kyurkchiev, nkyurk@math.bas.bg, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl. 8, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria
    2. Anton Iliev, aii@uni-plovdiv.bg, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, 24 Tsar Assen Str., 4000 Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Nikolay Kyurkchiev and Anton Iliev


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