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  2. Hatch mark - Wikipedia

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    Hatch marks (also called hash marks or tick marks) are a form of mathematical notation. They are used in three ways as: Unit and value marks — as on a ruler or number line; Congruence notation in geometry — as on a geometric figure; Graphed points — as on a graph; Hatch marks are frequently used as an abbreviation of some common units of ...

  3. Tally marks - Wikipedia

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    Tally marks, also called hash marks, are a form of numeral used for counting. They can be thought of as a unary numeral system . They are most useful in counting or tallying ongoing results, such as the score in a game or sport, as no intermediate results need to be erased or discarded.

  4. Number sign - Wikipedia

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    The symbol # is known variously in English-speaking regions as the number sign, [1] hash, [2] or pound sign. [3] The symbol has historically been used for a wide range of purposes including the designation of an ordinal number and as a ligatured abbreviation for pounds avoirdupois – having been derived from the now-rare ℔ .

  5. Hash - Wikipedia

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    Hash mark (sports), a marking on hockey rinks and gridiron football fields; Hatch mark, a form of mathematical notation; Number sign (#), also known as the hash, hash mark, or (in American English) pound sign; Service stripe, a military and paramilitary decoration; Tally mark, a counting notation; Checkmate symbol in chess

  6. Hash mark (sports) - Wikipedia

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    In sports, a hash mark or hash line is a short line/bar marking that is painted perpendicular to the sidelines or side barricades, used to help referees and players recognize on-field locations and visually measure distances. Hash marks serve the same function as the graduated markings on measuring tools such as rulers.

  7. k-mer - Wikipedia

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    Jellyfish uses a multithreaded, lock-free hash table for k-mer counting and has Python, Ruby, and Perl bindings [68] KMC is a tool for k-mer counting that uses a multidisk architecture for optimized speed [69] Gerbil uses a hash table approach but with added support for GPU acceleration [70]

  8. Glossary of biology - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.It is intended as introductory material for novices; for more specific and technical definitions from sub-disciplines and related fields, see Glossary of cell biology, Glossary of genetics, Glossary of evolutionary biology, Glossary of ecology ...

  9. Bloom filters in bioinformatics - Wikipedia

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    Bloom filters are space-efficient probabilistic data structures used to test whether an element is a part of a set. Bloom filters require much less space than other data structures for representing sets, however the downside of Bloom filters is that there is a false positive rate when querying the data structure.