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  2. Combination - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a combination is a selection of items from a set that has distinct members, such that the order of selection does not matter (unlike permutations).For example, given three fruits, say an apple, an orange and a pear, there are three combinations of two that can be drawn from this set: an apple and a pear; an apple and an orange; or a pear and an orange.

  3. Combinations and permutations - Wikipedia

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    Combinations and permutations in the mathematical sense are described in several articles.. Described together, in-depth: Twelvefold way; Explained separately in a more accessible way:

  4. Repetition (rhetorical device) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition is the simple repeating of a word, within a short space of words (including in a poem), with no particular placement of the words to secure emphasis.It is a multilinguistic written or spoken device, frequently used in English and several other languages, such as Hindi and Chinese, and so rarely termed a figure of speech.

  5. Spaced repetition - Wikipedia

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    The method of spaced repetition was first conceived of in the 1880s by German scientist Hermann Ebbinghaus.Ebbinghaus created the 'forgetting curve' - a graph portraying the loss of learned information over time - and postulated that it can be curbed by reviewing such information at several intervals over a period of time.

  6. Moore's law - Wikipedia

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    In 1959, Douglas Engelbart studied the projected downscaling of integrated circuit (IC) size, publishing his results in the article "Microelectronics, and the Art of Similitude".

  7. Time complexity - Wikipedia

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    Graphs of functions commonly used in the analysis of algorithms, showing the number of operations N as the result of input size n for each function. In theoretical computer science, the time complexity is the computational complexity that describes the amount of computer time it takes to run an algorithm.

  8. James Blunt - Wikipedia

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    Blunt was born James Hillier Blount, on 22 February 1974, [5] at Tidworth Camp military hospital, then in Hampshire, England. [6] His mother, Jane Ann Farran (née Amos), started a ski chalet company in the French Alpine resort of Méribel, while his father, Charles Blount, [7] was a cavalry officer in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and then a helicopter pilot, becoming a colonel in the Army Air ...

  9. Combination therapy - Wikipedia

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    Combination therapy or polytherapy is therapy that uses more than one medication or modality. Typically, the term refers to using multiple therapies to treat a single disease, and often all the therapies are pharmaceutical (although it can also involve non-medical therapy, such as the combination of medications and talk therapy to treat depression).