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- The magnitude is a sum of squares and, thus, a sum of nonegative numbers.
The only way that a sum of nonnegative numbers can be zero is if all of them
are zero.
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- The magnitude is the integral of a nonnegative function and is only zero
if the function is zero on the whole interval [a, b].

Copyright c 1995 by
Frank Wattenberg, Department of Mathematics, Montana State University,
Bozeman, MT 59717