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  2. Argument Clinic - Wikipedia

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    After the episode's end credits have scrolled, the BBC 1 mirror globe appears on screen, while a continuity announcer introduces "five more minutes of Monty Python's Flying Circus". [2] In the ensuing sketch, an unnamed man (Michael Palin) approaches a receptionist (Rita Davies) and says that he would like to have an argument. She directs him ...

  3. And Now for Something Completely Different - Wikipedia

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    John Cleese says when they test screened the film "the audience thought it was terrific and they fell about until they got to forty-five minutes in, and then . . . they stopped laughing." So the film was recut but audiences again stopped laughing forty five minutes in. They recut it a third time and the audiences stopped after forty five minutes.

  4. Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

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    Nalebuff, as later writers in mathematical economics, sees the problem as a simple and amusing exercise in game theory. [ 67 ] "The Monty Hall Trap", Phillip Martin's 1989 article in Bridge Today , presented Selvin's problem as an example of what Martin calls the probability trap of treating non-random information as if it were random, and ...

  5. Nudge Nudge - Wikipedia

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    Nudge Nudge sketch at Monty Python Live (Mostly) in 2014 "Candid Photography", better known as "Nudge Nudge", is a sketch from the third Monty Python's Flying Circus episode, "How to Recognise Different Types of Trees From Quite a Long Way Away" (series 1, ep.

  6. Automaton - Wikipedia

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    The exact number is the number of combinations possible on a clock with the hour, minute, and second hand: 43,200. The title of timed automaton declares that the automaton changes states at a set rate, which for clocks is 1 state change every second. Clock automata only takes as input the time displayed by the previous state.

  7. Structured programming - Wikipedia

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    Structured programming is a programming paradigm aimed at improving the clarity, quality, and development time of a computer program by making specific disciplined use of the structured control flow constructs of selection (if/then/else) and repetition (while and for), block structures, and subroutines.

  8. List of You Can't Do That on Television episodes - Wikipedia

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    It was unscripted when Matthew grabs his cap, which had fallen off during his sliming and caught slime inside of it, and puts it on his brother Amyas' head, but the producer's liked the moment so much they kept it in. The closing credits are sped up and feature references to Monty Python, a Roger Price favorite. 105: Sleep: December 29, 1986

  9. Lambda calculus - Wikipedia

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    On the other hand, typed lambda calculi allow more things to be proven. For example, in simply typed lambda calculus, it is a theorem that every evaluation strategy terminates for every simply typed lambda-term, whereas evaluation of untyped lambda-terms need not terminate (see below). One reason there are many different typed lambda calculi ...