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  2. Magic string - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of some known incidents where use of a magic string has caused problems. In several different cases, motorists with personalized strings on their vehicle registration plates have received incorrect traffic tickets. In affected ticketing systems, when police officers would fill out a traffic ticket for a car with no ...

  3. Bell character - Wikipedia

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    A bell character (sometimes bell code) is a device control code originally sent to ring a small electromechanical bell on tickers and other teleprinters and teletypewriters to alert operators at the other end of the line, often of an incoming message.

  4. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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    A grove of pine trees that are all bent in the same direction just as they emerge from the ground, before going straight back up again as normal. Nobody knows why this is the case. Cube house: A group of unusually-shaped houses designed to maximize their space. Dancing House: Also known as "Ginger and Fred" for its resemblance to a pair of dancers.

  5. Bell number - Wikipedia

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    The Bell numbers are named after Eric Temple Bell, who wrote about them in 1938, following up a 1934 paper in which he studied the Bell polynomials. [ 27 ] [ 28 ] Bell did not claim to have discovered these numbers; in his 1938 paper, he wrote that the Bell numbers "have been frequently investigated" and "have been rediscovered many times".

  6. Tin can telephone - Wikipedia

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    A tin can phone is a type of acoustic (non-electrical) speech-transmitting device made up of two tin cans, paper cups or similarly shaped items attached to either end of a taut string or wire. It is a particular case of mechanical telephony, where sound (i.e., vibrations in the air) is converted into vibrations along a liquid or solid medium ...

  7. Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

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    Thus, declaring const string testUserName = "John" is better than several occurrences of the 'magic value' "John" in a test suite. For example, if it is required to randomly shuffle the values in an array representing a standard pack of playing cards, this pseudocode does the job using the Fisher–Yates shuffle algorithm:

  8. Electric bell - Wikipedia

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    The most widely used form is the interrupter bell, which is a mechanical bell that produces a continuous sound when current is applied. See animation, above. The bell or gong (B), which is often in the shape of a cup or half-sphere, is struck by a spring-loaded arm (A) with a metal ball on the end called a clapper, actuated by an electromagnet ...

  9. List of string instruments - Wikipedia

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    Long String Instrument, (by Ellen Fullman, strings are rubbed in, and vibrate in the longitudinal mode) Magnetic resonance piano , (strings activated by electromagnetic fields) Stringed instruments with keyboards