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In Unicode, a Private Use Area (PUA) is a range of code points that, by definition, will not be assigned characters by the standard. [1] Three private use areas are defined: one in the Basic Multilingual Plane (U+E000–U+F8FF), and one each in, and nearly covering, planes 15 and 16 (U+F0000–U+FFFFD, U+100000–U+10FFFD).
Mint condition is an expression used to denote the quality of a pre-owned good as displaying virtually no imperfections and being in pristine condition relative to its original production state. Originally, the phrase related to the way collectors described the condition of coins .
The set of terms below were proposed in 1949 by AB Bookman's Weekly.They were adopted by the bookselling community and are still in use today. [1] [2] [3]As new means that the book is in the state that it should have been in when it left the publisher.
Dead code is normally considered dead unconditionally. Therefore, it is reasonable attempting to remove dead code through dead-code elimination at compile time. However, in practice it is also common for code sections to represent dead or unreachable code only under certain conditions, which may not be known at the time of compilation or assembly.
The obverse is an inexact rendering of the territorial seal. A miner's forearm, holding a pickaxe, dominates the design, with a pile of lead ore and soil in the background. [27] This represents the mining activities in southeast Wisconsin that drew many settlers to the area in the 1820s. [28]
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) has been selling uncut sheets of United States dollars since October 26, 1981. [2] [3] Uncut American paper money issued prior to that is a rarity.
Minty reveals that he only sees Heather as a friend, and as the marriage is never consummated, Heather arranges an annulment. Minty attends a pottery class in March 2009 and meets Phil's old girlfriend, Manda Best (Josie Lawrence), whom he has not seen for 20 years. It is revealed that Minty had a crush on Manda in their youth, and when Manda ...
Graphically, the exclamation mark is represented by variations on the theme of a period with a vertical line above. One theory of its origin posits derivation from a Latin exclamation of joy, namely io, analogous to "hooray"; copyists wrote the Latin word io at the end of a sentence, to indicate expression of joy.