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  2. Sieve of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

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    An incremental formulation of the sieve [2] generates primes indefinitely (i.e., without an upper bound) by interleaving the generation of primes with the generation of their multiples (so that primes can be found in gaps between the multiples), where the multiples of each prime p are generated directly by counting up from the square of the ...

  3. Triangular number - Wikipedia

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    Board game designers Geoffrey Engelstein and Isaac Shalev describe triangular numbers as having achieved "nearly the status of a mantra or koan among game designers", describing them as "deeply intuitive" and "featured in an enormous number of games, [proving] incredibly versatile at providing escalating rewards for larger sets without overly ...

  4. Multiple (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a multiple is the product of any quantity and an integer. [1] In other words, for the quantities a and b , it can be said that b is a multiple of a if b = na for some integer n , which is called the multiplier .

  5. Area - Wikipedia

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    Area is the measure of a region's size on a surface.The area of a plane region or plane area refers to the area of a shape or planar lamina, while surface area refers to the area of an open surface or the boundary of a three-dimensional object.

  6. Peppered moth evolution - Wikipedia

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    Biston betularia f. typica, the white-bodied peppered moth Biston betularia f. carbonaria, the black-bodied peppered moth . The evolution of the peppered moth is an evolutionary instance of directional colour change in the moth population as a consequence of air pollution during the Industrial Revolution.

  7. Habitat - Wikipedia

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    The physical factors may include (for example): soil, moisture, range of temperature, and light intensity. Biotic factors include the availability of food and the presence or absence of predators. Every species has particular habitat requirements, habitat generalist species are able to thrive in a wide array of environmental conditions while ...

  8. Mount St. Helens - Wikipedia

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    Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the local Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, [1] in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

  9. T-shirt - Wikipedia

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    All-over print T-shirts have solved the problem with color fading, and vibrancy is greater than most standard printing methods, but the process requires synthetic fabrics for the ink to take hold. The key feature of dye-sublimated clothing is that the design is not printed on top of the garment, but permanently dyed into the threads of the ...