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  2. Zenzizenzizenzic - Wikipedia

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    Jeake's text appears to designate a written exponent of 0 as being equal to an "absolute number, as if it had no Mark", thus using the notation x 0 to refer to an independent term of a polynomial, while a written exponent of 1, in his text, denotes "the Root of any number" (using root with the meaning of the base number, i.e. its first power x ...

  3. Decisive victory - Wikipedia

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    The phrases "decisive battle" and "decisive victory" have evolved over time, as the methods and scope of wars themselves changed. More modernly, as armies, wars and theaters of operation expanded — so that the gestalt (i.e., a result which is greater than the sum total – see synergy) of the overall venture was more definitive — the phrase "lost its meaning."

  4. Military doctrine - Wikipedia

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    Military doctrine is the expression of how military forces contribute to campaigns, major operations, battles, and engagements.A military doctrine outlines what military means should be used, how forces should be structured, where forces should be deployed, and the modes of cooperation between types of forces. [1] "

  5. Powell Doctrine - Wikipedia

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    The Powell Doctrine has been reported as an emerging legacy from the Korea and Vietnam wars and the "Never Again vs. Limited War" policy debates (either win or don't start versus value of limited war) [5] and Caspar Weinberger's Six Tests described in his 1984 speech "The Uses of Military Power". [6]

  6. Mathematical practice - Wikipedia

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    The axiomatic method of Euclid's Elements was influential in the development of Western science. [1]Mathematical practice comprises the working practices of professional mathematicians: selecting theorems to prove, using informal notations to persuade themselves and others that various steps in the final proof are convincing, and seeking peer review and publication, as opposed to the end ...

  7. Kantai Kessen - Wikipedia

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    The Decisive Battle Doctrine (艦隊決戦, Kantai Kessen, "naval fleet decisive battle") was a naval strategy adopted by the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to the Second World War. The theory was derived from the writings of American naval historian Alfred Thayer Mahan .

  8. Big stick ideology - Wikipedia

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    The term derives from the phrase, Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far, which Roosevelt claimed was a West African proverb, although there is little evidence for that.

  9. Arrow's impossibility theorem - Wikipedia

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    A coalition is decisive if and only if it is decisive over all ordered pairs. Our goal is to prove that the decisive coalition contains only one voter, who controls the outcome—in other words, a dictator. The following proof is a simplification taken from Amartya Sen [22] and Ariel Rubinstein. [23] The simplified proof uses an additional concept: