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Calderón–Zygmund lemma

Okay, so imagine you have a very long line of ants marching in a straight line. But sometimes some ants get lost and end up wandering away from the line.

Now imagine you want to figure out how many ants have wandered away from the line, without actually counting each individual ant. The Calderón-Zygmund lemma helps you do this!

It's like a super smart math trick that uses something called "averages" to figure out how many ants are lost.

To use the Calderón-Zygmund lemma, you take a bunch of tiny boxes and put them along the ant line. Then you count how many ants are in each box and figure out the average (which just means you add up all the numbers and divide by how many there are).

Next, you add up all the averages from all the boxes and divide by how many boxes there are. This gives you a "grand average".

Finally, you multiply the "grand average" by how many boxes there are. This gives you an estimate of how many ants are lost!

So the Calderón-Zygmund lemma is basically a way to estimate how many ants (or any other things) are lost, by using averages of smaller groups. Cool, huh?