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  2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers - Wikipedia

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    Only figures are used with unit symbols (12 min not twelve min); but figures or words may be used with unit names (12 minutes or twelve minutes), subject to the provisions above. Other numbers. Other numbers are given in numerals (3.75, 544) or in forms such as 21 million (or billion, trillion, etc. – but rarely thousand or hundred).

  3. Comma operator - Wikipedia

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    The comma operator separates expressions (which have value) in a way analogous to how the semicolon terminates statements, and sequences of expressions are enclosed in parentheses analogously to how sequences of statements are enclosed in braces: [1] (a, b, c) is a sequence of expressions, separated by commas, which evaluates to the last expression c, while {a; b; c;} is a sequence of ...

  4. Comparison of programming languages (syntax) - Wikipedia

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    The enclosed text becomes a string literal, which Python usually ignores (except when it is the first statement in the body of a module, class or function; see docstring). Elixir. The above trick used in Python also works in Elixir, but the compiler will throw a warning if it spots this.

  5. Delimiter - Wikipedia

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    A stylistic depiction of values inside of a so-named comma-separated values (CSV) text file. The commas (shown in red) are used as field delimiters. A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams.

  6. Serial comma - Wikipedia

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    The serial comma (also referred to as the series comma, Oxford comma, [1] or Harvard comma [2]) is a comma placed after the second-to-last term in a list (just before the conjunction) when writing out three or more terms.

  7. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Dates and numbers/Archive 79

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    One comma between the day and year, and one comma after the year (unless some other puncutation follows the year). See Chicago Manual of Style, Section 6.46: "In the month-day-year style of dates, the style most commonly used in the United States and hence now recommended by Chicago, commas are used both before and after the year.

  8. Full stop - Wikipedia

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    In file systems, the dot is commonly used to separate the extension of a file name from the name of the file (e.g., filename.mp4). RISC OS uses dots to separate levels of the hierarchical file system when writing path names—similar to / (forward-slash) in Unix -based systems and \ (back-slash) in MS-DOS -based systems and the Windows NT ...

  9. Python syntax and semantics - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Python also has 3 soft keywords. Unlike regular hard keywords, soft keywords are reserved words only in the limited contexts where interpreting them as keywords would make syntactic sense. These words can be used as identifiers elsewhere, in other words, match and case are valid names for functions and variables. [6] [7] _ [note 4 ...