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The aim of this work is to present and compare the most used methods for proving Hyers–Ulam stability of various classes of functional equations.
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Forti, G.L., Shulman, E. A comparison among methods for proving stability. Aequat. Math. 94, 547–574 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00010-019-00679-0
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