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Big round numbers are in play and in that regard, one question for investors to consider is this: Could gold hit $5000 while the Dow hits 50,000 and silver hits $100? It seems likely and gold stock ...

Abstract: To compress an image, a technique based on optimal scalings with diagonal matrices is described. To start the process, an initial image of high compression ratio is required. Such an image ...