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  2. List of Martin Gardner Mathematical Games columns - Wikipedia

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    Thoughts on the task of communication with intelligent organisms on other worlds: 1965 Sep: The superellipse: a curve that lies between the ellipse and the rectangle: 1965 Oct: Pentominoes and polyominoes: five games and a sampling of problems 1965 Nov: A selection of elementary word and number problems 1965 Dec: Magic stars, graphs and ...

  3. Tangent (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Tangent (tangent piano), a part of the action of the tangent piano that only initiates the sound by striking the string(s) and rebounding immediately in the manner of a piano; The Tangent, an international progressive rock supergroup; Tangents: The Tea Party Collection, a compilation album from The Tea Party released in 2000.

  4. Tangential speech - Wikipedia

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    The term refers simplistically to a thought disorder shown from speech with a lack of observance to the main subject of discourse, such that a person whilst speaking on a topic deviates from the topic. Further definition is of speech that deviates from an answer to a question that is relevant in the first instance but deviates from the ...

  5. Mnemonics in trigonometry - Wikipedia

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    The hexagonal chart can be constructed with a little thought: [10] Draw three triangles pointing down, touching at a single point. This resembles a fallout shelter trefoil. Write a 1 in the middle where the three triangles touch; Write the functions without "co" on the three left outer vertices (from top to bottom: sine, tangent, secant)

  6. Tangent - Wikipedia

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    The tangent line to a point on a differentiable curve can also be thought of as a tangent line approximation, the graph of the affine function that best approximates the original function at the given point. [3] Similarly, the tangent plane to a surface at a given point is the plane that "just touches" the

  7. Thought disorder - Wikipedia

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    A thought disorder (TD) is a disturbance in cognition which affects language, thought and communication. [1] [2] Psychiatric and psychological glossaries in 2015 and 2017 identified thought disorders as encompassing poverty of ideas, paralogia (a reasoning disorder characterized by expression of illogical or delusional thoughts), word salad, and delusions—all disturbances of thought content ...

  8. Problem of Apollonius - Wikipedia

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    If the angle between lines or circles at an intersection point is zero, they are said to be tangent; the intersection point is called a tangent point or a point of tangency. (The word "tangent" derives from the Latin present participle, tangens, meaning "touching".) In practice, two distinct circles are tangent if they intersect at only one ...

  9. Derailment (thought disorder) - Wikipedia

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    In psychiatry, derailment (aka loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, entgleisen, disorganised thinking [1]) categorises any speech comprising sequences of unrelated or barely related ideas; the topic often changes from one sentence to another.