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  2. List of humorous units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    The measure is the number of times one's name has appeared in The New York Times crossword puzzle as either a clue or solution. Arguably, this number should only be calculated for the Shortz era (1993–present). Shortz himself is 1 Shortz famous. [citation needed]

  3. Weird number - Wikipedia

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    A property of weird numbers is that if n is weird, and p is a prime greater than the sum of divisors σ(n), then pn is also weird. [4] This leads to the definition of primitive weird numbers: weird numbers that are not a multiple of other weird numbers (sequence A002975 in the OEIS). Among the 1765 weird numbers less than one million, there are ...

  4. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    A form of unary notation called Church encoding is used to represent numbers within lambda calculus. Some email spam filters tag messages with a number of asterisks in an e-mail header such as X-Spam-Bar or X-SPAM-LEVEL. The larger the number, the more likely the email is considered spam. 10: Bijective base-10: To avoid zero: 26: Bijective base-26

  5. 20 Odd Jobs: From Gross to Weird - AOL

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    If you think about it, there are odd jobs doing almost anything, no matter how exciting, disgusting or just plain weird it may seem. For example, 20 Odd Jobs: From Gross to Weird

  6. Wyrd - Wikipedia

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    The replacement of werd by weird in the northern dialects is "difficult to account for". [ 10 ] The most common modern meaning of weird – 'odd, strange' – is first attested in 1815, originally with a connotation of the supernatural or portentous (especially in the collocation weird and wonderful ), but by the early 20th century increasingly ...

  7. Wikipedia : Unusual articles/Mathematics and numbers

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    An infinite number of monkeys typing on an infinite number of typewriters will (almost surely) produce all possible written texts. Interesting number paradox Either all natural numbers are interesting or else none of them are.

  8. When Nature Gets Weird: 50 Odd Facts That May Leave You ... - AOL

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    #10 A Single Strand Of Spider Silk Is Thinner Than A Human Hair But Also Five Times Stronger Than Steel Of The Same Width. A Rope Just 2 Inches Thick Could Reportedly Stop A Boeing 747 Image ...

  9. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    "Different" or "separate" after numbers: for example: "Four different species " are merely "four species", as two non-different species are together one same species. (However, in "a discount if you buy ten different items", "different" has meaning, because if the ten items include two packets of frozen peas of the same weight and brand, those ...