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  2. Quizlet - Wikipedia

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    [6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user. [10] Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website. [11]

  3. To a Wreath of Snow - Wikipedia

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    Sibilance is used most successfully in stanzas one and five. The writer uses sibilance to imitate the sound and atmosphere she describes. In stanza one, she is imitating the "silent sign," and in stanza five she is trying to create a serene atmosphere that is "soft" and "sweetly spoke" by using the soft "s" sound repeatedly.

  4. Mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    However, some authors such as Diophantus used some symbols as abbreviations. The first systematic use of formulas, and, in particular the use of symbols for unspecified numbers is generally attributed to François Viète (16th century). However, he used different symbols than those that are now standard.

  5. History of mathematical notation - Wikipedia

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    Babylonian mathematics were written using a sexagesimal (base-60) numeral system. From this derives the modern-day usage of 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 (60 × 6) degrees in a circle, as well as the use of minutes and seconds of arc to denote fractions of a degree. Babylonian advances in mathematics were facilitated by ...

  6. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Mathematics

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    The use of Unicode characters for blackboard bold is discouraged in English Wikipedia; instead, either the LaTeX rendering (for example <math>\mathbb{Z}</math> or <math>\Z</math>) or standard bold fonts should be used. As with all such choices, each article should be consistent with itself, and editors should not change articles from one choice ...

  7. The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

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    "The Library of Babel" was originally written by Borges in 1941, [3] based on an earlier essay he had published in 1939 while working as a librarian. [4] It concerns a fictional library containing every possible book of a certain fixed length, over a 25-symbol alphabet (which, including spacing and punctuation, is sufficient for the Spanish language). [5]

  8. Sibilant - Wikipedia

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    Authors including Chomsky and Halle group and as sibilants. However, they do not have the grooved articulation and high frequencies of other sibilants, and most phoneticians [ 1 ] continue to group them together with bilabial [ ΙΈ ] , [ β ] and (inter)dental [ θ ] , [ ð ] as non-sibilant anterior fricatives.

  9. Academic writing - Wikipedia

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    Writers (often unwittingly) make use of what has previously been written and thus some degree of borrowing is inevitable. One of the key characteristics of academic writing across disciplines is the use of explicit conventions for acknowledging intertextuality, such as citation and bibliography. The conventions for marking intertextuality vary ...