CodeContracts provide a language agnostic way to specify and check preconditions , postconditions and object invariants (collectively called contracts [17]). Specifications take the form of calls to static methods of a Contract library [7]. The authoring library is available out-of-the-box to all .NET programmers from v4. An example of CodeContracts usage is reported in Fig. 1. The code illustr...

A Fourier-transform absorption spectrum of 130Te2 has been recorded from 19000 to 24000 cm−1 at approximately 620 °C; a transmission is made available in ASCII format. The intended aid spectral calibration the blue-violet region. It extends slightly beyond paper version Tellurium atlas, published 1980 (J. Cariou and P. Luc, 'Atlas du spectre d'absorption de la molécule tellure', Laboratoire Aim...

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The Atlantic Surface Cyclone Intensification Index (ASCII) is a forecast index that quantifies the strength of low-level baroclinicity in the coastal region of the Carolinas. It is based on the gradient between the coldest 24-h average air temperature at Cape Hatteras and Wilmington, North Carolina, and the temperature at the western boundary of the Gulf Stream. The resulting prestorm baroclini...

We have seen that the Fourier transform is well-behaved in the framework of Schwartz functions as well as L, while L is much more awkward. Tempered distributions, which include L, provide a larger framework in which the Fourier transform is well-behaved, and they provide the additional benefit that one can differentiate them arbitrarily many times! To see how this is built up, we start with a r...