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Moment problem
Trying to map moments to a measure that generates them / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In mathematics, a moment problem arises as the result of trying to invert the mapping that takes a measure to the sequence of moments
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More generally, one may consider
for an arbitrary sequence of functions .