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and (A61) 



- Inln i— -M + In (/.• - 1) 



V ^* / (A(J2) 



= h(wA + bV^'f + In (uu + hVn^) 

 Since Wa is bounded and In \/n" = o{n") it follows that for large k 



n" ^ (2/6') In (/,• - 1) ^ r' in /.• (A63) 



where (7 is a proportionality factor. Starting with (A54) and (A56) the 

 same argument gives the same result as (A63) for n' . Hence, bj^ (A58), 

 the same result must hold for yi. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



The authors wish to thank R. B. Murphy, J. W. Tukey, E. L. Kaplan, 

 S. S. Gupta, E. Bleicher, S. Alonro, all of Bell Telephone Laboratories, 

 and Prof. R. E. Bechhofer of Cornell University for helpful suggestions 

 and constructive criticism in connection with this paper. 



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