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A Truthful, Privacy-Preserving, Approximately Efficient Combinatorial Auction For Single-minded Bidders

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In mathematics, a square root of a number x is a number y such that ; in other words, a number y whose square (the result of multiplying the number by itself, or ) is x. For example, 4 and −4 are square roots of 16 because . Every nonnegative real number x has a unique nonnegative square root, called the principal square root, which is denoted by where the symbol "" is called the radical sign or radix. For example, to express the fact that the principal square root of 9 is 3, we write .

Privacy software

Privacy software is software built to protect the privacy of its users. The software typically works in conjunction with Internet usage to control or limit the amount of information made available to third parties. The software can apply encryption or filtering of various kinds. Privacy software can refer to two different types of protection. The first type is protecting a users Internet privacy from the World Wide Web. There are software products that will mask or hide a users IP address from the outside world to protect the user from identity theft.

Freedom of information

Freedom of information is freedom of a person or people to publish and consume information. Access to information is the ability for an individual to seek, receive and impart information effectively.