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  2. Bimodality - Wikipedia

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    Bimodality is the simultaneous use of two distinct pitch collections. It is more general than bitonality since the "scales" involved need not be traditional scales; if diatonic collections are involved, their pitch centers need not be the familiar major and minor-scale tonics.

  3. Stars in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Stars as sentient beings, in one form or another, is a recurring theme. [1] [2] [3] [27] Anthropomorphized, thinking stars appear in Olaf Stapledon's 1937 novel Star Maker and Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson's Starchild trilogy consisting of the 1964 novel The Reefs of Space, the 1965 novel Starchild, and the 1969 novel Rogue Star.

  4. List of unsolved problems in astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Some observed planetary systems contain Super-Earths and Hot Jupiters that orbit very close to their stars. Systems with Jupiter-like planets in Jupiter-like orbits appear to be rare. There are several possibilities as to why Jupiter-like orbits are rare, including that data is lacking or the grand tack hypothesis.

  5. Unimodality - Wikipedia

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    Other examples of unimodal distributions include Cauchy distribution, Student's t-distribution, chi-squared distribution and exponential distribution. Among discrete distributions, the binomial distribution and Poisson distribution can be seen as unimodal, though for some parameters they can have two adjacent values with the same probability.

  6. Shape of a probability distribution - Wikipedia

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    A bimodal distribution would have two high points rather than one. The shape of a distribution is sometimes characterised by the behaviours of the tails (as in a long or short tail). For example, a flat distribution can be said either to have no tails, or to have short tails.

  7. Uniform polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    Example forms from the cube and octahedron. The convex uniform polyhedra can be named by Wythoff construction operations on the regular form. In more detail the convex uniform polyhedron are given below by their Wythoff construction within each symmetry group. Within the Wythoff construction, there are repetitions created by lower symmetry forms.

  8. On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other ...

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    Front cover Albireo, a well-known coloured double star.Compare the colour of other stars in . On the coloured light of the binary stars and some other stars of the heavens or in the original German Über das farbige Licht der Doppelsterne und einiger anderer Gestirne des Himmels is a treatise by Christian Doppler (1842) [1] in which he postulated his principle that the observed frequency ...

  9. Multimodal distribution - Wikipedia

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    Bimodal distributions are a commonly used example of how summary statistics such as the mean, median, and standard deviation can be deceptive when used on an arbitrary distribution. For example, in the distribution in Figure 1, the mean and median would be about zero, even though zero is not a typical value.