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  • ...magnetic striping|alternating bands found on the ocean floors of Earth]]. One theory, published in 1999 and re-examined in October 2005 (with the help of ...billion years ago, the northern hemisphere of Mars was struck by an object one-tenth to two-thirds the size of [[the Moon]]. If validated, this would make ...
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  • ...een so as not to harm his study of [[Latin]] and [[Greek language|Greek]]. One day, however, Étienne found Blaise (now twelve) writing an independent proo ...is neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France. It was only w ...
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  • ...Apollonius: for instance solution circles generically occur in pairs, with one solution enclosing the given circles that the other excludes (Figure 2). [[ ...blem iteratively in this case leads to the [[Apollonian gasket]], which is one of the earliest [[fractal]]s to be described in print, and is important in ...
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  • ...each step, the smaller number is subtracted from the larger number, until one number is reduced to zero. The remaining number is the GCD.]] ...s reduced, repeating this process gives successively smaller numbers until one of them is zero. When that occurs, the GCD is the remaining nonzero number. ...
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  • ...] typing at random would, as part of its output, [[almost surely]] produce one of Shakespeare's plays.]] ...ions of [[statistical mechanics]]. Various [[Christian apologists]] on the one hand, and [[Richard Dawkins]] on the other, have argued about the appropria ...
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  • ...a distance of 11.9 [[light-year]]s. This makes it [[List of nearest stars|one of the closest]] star systems to the Sun, and the next-closest [[Stellar cl | title=The One Hundred Nearest Star Systems ...
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  • ...rch of a new car, the player picks a door, say 1. The game host then opens one of the other doors, say 3, to reveal a goat and offers to let the player pi ...goat behind it. If both remaining doors have goats behind them, he chooses one randomly. After Monty Hall opens a door with a goat, he will ask you to dec ...
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  • ...= The action of a Caesar cipher is to replace each plaintext letter with one a fixed number of places down the alphabet. This example is with a shift of ...''', the '''shift cipher''', '''Caesar's code''' or '''Caesar shift''', is one of the simplest and most widely known [[encryption]] techniques. It is a ty ...
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  • ...ar, its [[angular diameter]] can be measured directly, yielding a diameter one-seventh that of the Sun.<ref name="ESO2003"/> Proxima Centauri's mass is ab ...t that the chance of the observed alignment being a coincidence is roughly one in a million.<ref>{{cite journal ...
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  • ! colspan=4 align="center"|One adult household ...[[President's Advisory Panel for Federal Tax Reform]] cited the rebate as one of their chief concerns when analyzing their national sales tax, stating th ...
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  • ...ccount for the acceleration experienced by himself and objects around him. One example, the force pressing the driver of an accelerating car into his or h ...ects accelerate in the opposite direction, falling "downward". Assume that one of the observers is "higher up" than the other. When the lower observer se ...
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  • ...[light-years]] from [[Earth]], and, together with Arcturus and [[Sirius]], one of the most [[luminosity|luminous]] stars in the [[Sun]]'s neighborhood. ...ating the [[Photometry (astronomy)|photometric]] brightness scale, and was one of the stars used to define the mean values for the [[UBV photometric syste ...
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  • ...ntent of this article is well-established. If you have an argument against one or more of the proofs listed here, please read the FAQ on [[Talk:0.999...]] ...denotes a [[real number]] [[equality (mathematics)|equal]] to [[1 (number)|one]]. In other words: the notations ''0.999…'' and ''1 '' actually represent t ...
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  • ...isks encounters some problems.<ref name=Wurchterl2004/> The most important one is how the material, which is accreted by the protostar, loses its [[angula ...small planetesimals&mdash;about 1&nbsp;km in diameter&mdash;have formed by one way or another, ''runaway accretion'' begins.<ref name=Kokubo2002/> It is c ...
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  • ..., and [[Europa (moon)|Europa]].<ref name=Galilei/> Callisto is named after one of [[Zeus]]'s many lovers in [[Greek mythology]]. [[Callisto (mythology)|Ca ...the orbital motion{{Ref_label|G|g|none}}&mdash;is darker than the trailing one. This is different from other [[Galilean satellites]], where the reverse is ...
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  • ...arge. The red and blue balls are labeled "u" (for "up" quark) and the blue one is labeled "d" (for "down" quark). The color assignment of individual quark | caption = A proton, composed of two up quarks and one down quark ...
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  • ...ulation|major cities]], where the vehicle may be weighed and measured. The one exception to the formula allows a standard five-axle semi-truck configurati ...f name=mpr/> National Pavement Cost Model (NAPCOM) estimates indicate that one {{convert|80000|lb|adj=on}} truck does as much damage to roads as 750 {{con ...
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  • ...ss|Spruance|destroyer}}, three {{sclass|Oliver Hazard Perry|frigate}}, and one support ship. {{cite book |title=The Complete Book of U.S. Fighting Power | ...ch had run aground. In 1956, ''Kentucky''’s bow was removed and shipped in one piece across [[Hampton Roads]], where it was grafted on the battleship ''Wi ...
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  • ...veloped, including manual methods like [[shielded metal arc welding]], now one of the most popular welding methods, as well as semi-automatic and automati ...as developed.<ref>Cary and Helzer, p 6</ref> At first, oxyfuel welding was one of the more popular welding methods due to its portability and relatively l ...
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  • ...s not tend towards any finite [[Limit of a sequence|limit]]. Equivalently, one says that {{nowrap|1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + …}} lacks a sum. ...2 + 3 − 4 + …}} a "sum" of {{frac|1|4}} after all. [[Cesàro summation]] is one of the few methods that does not sum {{nowrap|1 − 2 + 3 − 4 + …}}, so the s ...
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