Nanoindentation is a measurement technique which is important in measuring Young’s modulus and hardness in thin films and any other situations involving the measurement of limited amounts of material.

Let m, n ≥ 0, λ > 1, and R be a rational function with numerator, denominator of degree ≤ m, n, respectively. In several applications, one needs to know the size of the set $\mathcal{S} \subset$ [0, 1 ...