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  2. List of comics creators appearing in comics - Wikipedia

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    Several comic book and comic strip writers, artists, and others have appeared within the fictional world of comics, both their own and others'.Some appear as simple characters in the story, some appear as characters who break the fourth wall and address the reader directly, and some make cameo appearances in framing sequences to introduce a story and sometimes to have a last word.

  3. Slash (punctuation) - Wikipedia

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    The slash is a slanting line punctuation mark /.It is also known as a stroke, a solidus, a forward slash and several other historical or technical names.Once used as the equivalent of the modern period and comma, the slash is now used to represent division and fractions, as a date separator, or to connect alternative terms.

  4. Mary Marvel - Wikipedia

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    Mary Marvel (also known as Lady Shazam and Mary Shazam) is a fictional character and superheroine originally published by Fawcett Comics and now owned by DC Comics.Created by Otto Binder and Marc Swayze, she first appeared in Captain Marvel Adventures #18 (cover-dated Dec. 1942). [2]

  5. List of common misconceptions about arts and culture

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    The word "gringo" did not originate during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848) as a corruption of "Green, go home!", in reference to the green uniforms of American troops. [101] [102] The word originally simply meant "foreigner", and is probably a corruption of the Spanish word griego for "Greek" (along the lines of the idiom "It's Greek ...

  6. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    A decimal separator is a symbol that separates the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form. Different countries officially designate different symbols for use as the separator. The choice of symbol can also affect the choice of symbol for the thousands separator used in digit grouping.

  7. Fast inverse square root - Wikipedia

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    Lighting and reflection calculations, as in the video game OpenArena, use the fast inverse square root code to compute angles of incidence and reflection.. Fast inverse square root, sometimes referred to as Fast InvSqrt() or by the hexadecimal constant 0x5F3759DF, is an algorithm that estimates , the reciprocal (or multiplicative inverse) of the square root of a 32-bit floating-point number in ...

  8. Wikipedia : Wikipedia Signpost/2025-01-15/Technology report

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    It can't read data from external services (like page view service or WDQS.) although one could use a bot to work around that. The graph extension allowed for complex programability and non-form control based user input (that largely wasn't used) e.g. pacman which isn't doable in this system. There also might be more scalability concerns for ...