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Roman numerals: for example the word "six" in the clue might be used to indicate the letters VI; The name of a chemical element may be used to signify its symbol; e.g., W for tungsten; The days of the week; e.g., TH for Thursday; Country codes; e.g., "Switzerland" can indicate the letters CH; ICAO spelling alphabet: where Mike signifies M and ...
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
[5] [9] [10] Alex Trebek objected to this strategy, as the clues become more difficult as one moves down the board. [9] [11] The "Forrest Bounce" is a strategy, named after Chuck Forrest, in which contestants randomly pick clues to confuse opponents, as well as choosing higher-value clues from the bottom of the board.
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Extent File System, a discontinued file system implementation named after the contiguous region; Extent, a chunk of storage space logical volume management uses internally to provide various device mappings; Extent, in computer programming, is the period during which a variable has a particular value
Complete metric space, a metric space in which every Cauchy sequence converges; Complete uniform space, a uniform space where every Cauchy net in converges (or equivalently every Cauchy filter converges) Complete measure, a measure space where every subset of every null set is measurable; Completion (algebra), at an ideal; Completeness ...
Ballantyne was born in Edinburgh on 24 April 1825, the ninth of ten children and the youngest son, of Alexander Thomson Ballantyne (1776–1847) and his wife Anne (1786–1855).