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Computing distribution of non-identical coin flips

Suppose I have $N$ coins, where coin $i$ has probability $p_i$ of coming up heads. I flip all $N$ coins and let $S_N$ be the number of heads. How can I compute the distribution of $S_N$ efficiently? ...
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Level sums, displacements: how to determine them efficiently?

Let $R =\mathbb{Z}/N \mathbb{Z}$. Let $f:R\to \mathbb{R}$, $\rho:R\to \lbrack 0,1\rbrack$. We assume that it takes trivial time to compute any given value $f(m)$ or $\rho(m)$. Define $$S(\delta,m) = ...
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