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  2. Non sequitur (literary device) - Wikipedia

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    A non sequitur (English: / n ɒ n ˈ s ɛ k w ɪ t ər / non SEK-wit-ər, Classical Latin: [noːn ˈsɛkᶣɪtʊr]; "[it] does not follow") is a conversational literary device, often used for comedic purposes.

  3. Trial and error - Wikipedia

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    To find all solutions, one simply makes a note and continues, rather than ending the process, when a solution is found, until all solutions have been tried. To find the best solution, one finds all solutions by the method just described and then comparatively evaluates them based upon some predefined set of criteria, the existence of which is a ...

  4. Non-functional requirement - Wikipedia

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    Broadly, functional requirements define what a system is supposed to do and non-functional requirements define how a system is supposed to be.Functional requirements are usually in the form of "system shall do <requirement>", an individual action or part of the system, perhaps explicitly in the sense of a mathematical function, a black box description input, output, process and control ...

  5. Thesaurus (information retrieval) - Wikipedia

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    ISO 25964, the international standard for information retrieval thesauri, defines a thesaurus as a “controlled and structured vocabulary in which concepts are represented by terms, organized so that relationships between concepts are made explicit, and preferred terms are accompanied by lead-in entries for synonyms or quasi-synonyms.”

  6. Recursion - Wikipedia

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    A simple base case (or cases) — a terminating scenario that does not use recursion to produce an answer; A recursive step — a set of rules that reduces all successive cases toward the base case. For example, the following is a recursive definition of a person's ancestor. One's ancestor is either: One's parent (base case), or

  7. Formal fallacy - Wikipedia

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    People often have difficulty applying the rules of logic. For example, a person may say the following syllogism is valid, when in fact it is not: All birds have beaks. That creature has a beak. Therefore, that creature is a bird. "That creature" may well be a bird, but the conclusion does not follow from the premises.

  8. Pseudocode - Wikipedia

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    Pseudocode is commonly used in textbooks and scientific publications related to computer science and numerical computation to describe algorithms in a way that is accessible to programmers regardless of their familiarity with specific programming languages.

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...