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  2. Day count convention - Wikipedia

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    1994-02-10 to 1994-06-30 = 140/365; Resulting in a total value of 3 + 140/365. This convention was originally written in French and during translation the term "Période d'Application" was converted to "Calculation Period". As ISDA assigns a very specific meaning to "Calculation Period" (Date1 to Date3) confusion can ensue.

  3. Negative capability - Wikipedia

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    "Negative capability" is the capacity of artists to pursue ideals of beauty, perfection and sublimity even when it leads them into intellectual confusion and uncertainty, as opposed to a preference for philosophical certainty over artistic beauty. The term, first used by John Keats in 1817, has been subsequently used by poets, philosophers and literary theorists to describe the ability to ...

  4. Confusion and diffusion - Wikipedia

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    Its confusion look-up tables are very non-linear and good at destroying patterns. [14] Its diffusion stage spreads every part of the input to every part of the output: changing one bit of input changes half the output bits on average. Both confusion and diffusion are repeated multiple times for each input to increase the amount of scrambling.

  5. Abraxas - Wikipedia

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    The process continues in like manner until 365 heavens are in existence, the angels of the last or visible heaven being the authors of our world. [4] "The ruler" [principem, i.e., probably ton archonta] of the 365 heavens "is Abraxas, and for this reason he contains within himself 365 numbers". The name occurs in the Refutation of All Heresies ...

  6. Confusing similarity - Wikipedia

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    December 2007) (Learn how and when to remove this message) In trademark law , confusing similarity is a test used during the examination process to determine whether a trademark conflicts with another, earlier mark, and also in trademark infringement proceedings to determine whether the use of a mark infringes a registered trademark.

  7. Byzantine fault - Wikipedia

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    A Byzantine fault is a condition of a system, particularly a distributed computing system, where a fault occurs such that different symptoms are presented to different observers, including imperfect information on whether a system component has failed.

  8. John Taylor Gatto - Wikipedia

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    John Taylor Gatto (December 15, 1935 [3] – October 25, 2018 [4]) was an American author and school teacher.After teaching for nearly 30 years he authored several books on modern education, criticizing its ideology, history, and consequences.

  9. Galton board - Wikipedia

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    Galton box A Galton box demonstrated. The Galton board, also known as the Galton box or quincunx or bean machine (or incorrectly Dalton board), is a device invented by Francis Galton [1] to demonstrate the central limit theorem, in particular that with sufficient sample size the binomial distribution approximates a normal distribution.