It is shown that under fairly mild conditions linear combinations of independent normally distributed random variables with random coefficients tend to zero almost everywhere. The result is applied to ...

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Discrete combinatorial optimization has a central role in many scientific disciplines, however, for hard problems we lack linear time algorithms that would allow us to solve very large instances.