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- Consider, again, the explicit form of the likelihood of a rod
quivering in the earthquake.

- According to Equation (14), we now regard L as a function of
and so rewrite it:

- On completing the square to write exponent as quadratic in
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Geoffrey Fox, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, gcf@npac.syr.edu