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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    The logarithm of a number is the power (i.e., exponent) to which a specified base must be raised to produce that number. Standard: The board of directors developed an algorithm for choosing the company's new president from among the remaining candidates. Standard: The algorithm for long division is usually taught in grade school.

  3. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Mathematics and numbers

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    By a strange coincidence, ... Extravagant number: Don't take it shopping. Not very friendly with the frugal number either. Gabriel's horn:

  4. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Numbers very close to, but below one are often expressed in "nines" (N – not to be confused with the unit newton), that is in the number of nines following the decimal separator in writing the number in question. For example, "three nines" or "3N" indicates 0.999 or 99.9%, "four nines five" or "4N5" is the expression for the number 0.99995 or ...

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  6. Wyrd - Wikipedia

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    Poster for the Norwegian magazine Urd by Andreas Bloch and Olaf Krohn. Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny", or simply "unexpected".

  7. Odd Hours - Wikipedia

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    Odd then takes a moment to contact the Department of Homeland Security to advise them where they could find the triggers he removed from the nuclear devices. The story ends with Odd and Annamaria, along with the golden retriever now named Raphael, leaving Magic Beach in a car loaned to them by Hutch, flush with money he insisted Odd take.

  8. Glossary of American terms not widely used in the United ...

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    sawhorse; also a ten dollar bill (so named because some designs incorporated the Roman number ten, or "X", which resembles a sawhorse) scads great amounts scallion * also used in Ireland; also known as spring onion in Great Britain and the US scalper ticket tout Scotch-Irish

  9. Weird number - Wikipedia

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    A property of weird numbers is that if n is weird, and p is a prime greater than the sum of divisors σ(n), then pn is also weird. [4] This leads to the definition of primitive weird numbers: weird numbers that are not a multiple of other weird numbers (sequence A002975 in the OEIS). Among the 1765 weird numbers less than one million, there are ...