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Privacy and Counterfeit Coins

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Acknowledgments

We are grateful to the MIT-PRIMES program for allowing us to conduct this research.

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Tanya Khovanova

  2. Berkeley Preparatory School, 4811 Kelly Rd., Tampa, FL, 33615, USA

    Nicholas Diaco

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This column is a place for those bits of contagious mathematics that travel from person to person in the community, because they are so elegant, surprising, or appealing that one has an urge to pass them on.

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Diaco, N., Khovanova, T. Privacy and Counterfeit Coins. Math Intelligencer 38, 6–10 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9652-3

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