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A Roman coin with the head of Pompey the Great on the obverse and a ship on the reverse. Coin flipping was known to the Romans as navia aut caput ("ship or head"), as some coins had a ship on one side and the head of the emperor on the other. [1]
Foswiki is an enterprise wiki, typically used to run a collaboration platform, [5] [6] [7] knowledge base [8] [9] or document management system.Users can create wiki applications using the Topic Markup Language (TML), and developers can extend its functionality with plugins.
A spigot (or "tap" or "faucet") is a valve for controlling the release of a gas or liquid. Spigot may also refer to: AT-4 Spigot, NATO reporting name for 9K111 Fagot, a Russian anti-tank missile; Spigot, the male end of a pipe designed to be connected with a spigot and socket joint; Spigot, a keyed post in the center of some vacuum tube bases
Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is a deprecated application programming interface (API) for web browser plugins, initially developed for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in 1995 and subsequently adopted by other browsers.
A spigot algorithm is an algorithm for computing the value of a transcendental number (such as π or e) that generates the digits of the number sequentially from left to right providing increasing precision as the algorithm proceeds. Spigot algorithms also aim to minimize the amount of intermediate storage required.
9P135M Can fire the 9M111 Fagot (NATO: AT-4 Spigot) series as well as the 9K113 Konkurs (NATO: AT-5 Spandrel) series missiles. 9P135M1 Updated version of the 9P135. 9P135M2 Updated version of the 9P135. 9P135M3 Deployed in the early 1990s. Adds 13 kg (29 lb) TPVP thermal imaging night sight – range 2,500 m (8,200 ft; 1.6 mi) at night.
The Sleeping Beauty problem, also known as the Sleeping Beauty paradox, [1] is a puzzle in decision theory in which an ideally rational epistemic agent is told she will be awoken from sleep either once or twice according to the toss of a coin.
Ketamine is a dissociative anesthetic used medically for induction and maintenance of anesthesia.It is also used as a treatment for depression and in pain management. [19] ...