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          |  | Volume 10, Issue 2, Article 39 |  | 
         
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       |  | A Bound for Certain Bibasic Sums and Applications
 
 
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          |  |  | Authors: | Mingjin Wang, Hongshun Ruan, |  | 
         
          |  |  | Keywords: | Basic hypergeometric function; $q$-binomial coefficient; Euler formula; $q$-Gauss sum; Grüss inequality. |  | 
         
          |  |  | Date Received: | 28/06/07 |  | 
         
          |  |  | Date Accepted: | 15/05/09 |  | 
         
          |  |  | Subject Codes: | Pri: 26D15; Sec: 33D15; 33D65. |  | 
 
          |  |  | Editors: | Sever S. Dragomir, |  | 
         
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          |  |  | Abstract: |  In this paper, we use the terminating case of the Euler formula, the limiting case of the q-Gauss sum and the Grüss inequality to derive a bound for certain bibasic sums. Applications of the inequality are also given.
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