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The exponential function to the natural base, \(e^x\), can be defined in more than one way. One of them makes use of the integral \(\int_1^{e^x} \frac{dy}{y}= x\).

Shannon's entropy, \(H(X) = -\sum_{x \in \mathbf{X}} p(x) \log p(x)\), measures how informative the mass function \(p\) is about the occurrence of the possible values of variable \(X\).

Complicated convolution operations become simple multiplications via the Laplace transform \(F(s) = \int_{-\infty}^{\infty}f(x)e^{-s x}dx\) for function \(f\).