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  2. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    2. Denotes that a number is positive and is read as plus. Redundant, but sometimes used for emphasizing that a number is positive, specially when other numbers in the context are or may be negative; for example, +2. 3. Sometimes used instead of for a disjoint union of sets. − 1.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Mathematics and numbers

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    An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will (almost surely) produce all possible written texts. Interesting number paradox Either all natural numbers are interesting or else none of them are.

  5. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Standard: The coffee is down the third aisle on the left. algorithm and logarithm. An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure, usually for calculation, the processing of data, or choosing among alternatives. The logarithm of a number is the power (i.e., exponent) to which a specified base must be raised to produce that number.

  6. List of idioms of improbability - Wikipedia

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    What she would have is left to the imagination, and it is probably a parallel creation rather than a borrowing to or from Marathi (see below). To express someone's wishful thinking: Il attend que les alouettes lui tombent toutes cuites dans la bouche ("He's waiting for larks to fall into his mouth all cooked").

  7. Wyrd - Wikipedia

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    The replacement of werd by weird in the northern dialects is "difficult to account for". [ 10 ] The most common modern meaning of weird – 'odd, strange' – is first attested in 1815, originally with a connotation of the supernatural or portentous (especially in the collocation weird and wonderful ), but by the early 20th century increasingly ...

  8. 35 Times People’s Intuition Spotted Something Was ... - AOL

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    Image credits: disjointed_chameleon #3. I lived a five minute walk from a grocery store. One evening, as I was leaving the grocery checkout I noticed a man at another register abandon his items ...

  9. Galileo's law of odd numbers - Wikipedia

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    In classical mechanics and kinematics, Galileo's law of odd numbers states that the distance covered by a falling object in successive equal time intervals is linearly proportional to the odd numbers. That is, if a body falling from rest covers a certain distance during an arbitrary time interval, it will cover 3, 5, 7, etc. times that distance ...