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Fitting an Elephant with Four non-Zero Parameters

2024/07/02 by Dian Jin, Junze Yuan, Jin, Dian +1 · 5 voices · 1 citation
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paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2407.07909

Abstract

In 1953, Enrico Fermi criticized Dyson's model by quoting Johnny von Neumann: "With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." So far, there have been several attempts to fit an elephant using four parameters, but as the problem has not been well-defined, the current methods do not completely satisfy the requirements. This paper defines the problem and presents an attempt.

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