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  2. Number bond - Wikipedia

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    Number bonds are often learned in sets for which the sum is a common round number such as 10 or 20. Having acquired some familiar number bonds, children should also soon learn how to use them to develop strategies to complete more complicated sums, for example by navigating from a new sum to an adjacent number bond they know, i.e. 5 + 2 and 4 ...

  3. Premium Bonds - Wikipedia

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    The machine that generates the numbers is called ERNIE, an acronym for "Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment". [2] Prizes range from £25 to £1,000,000 and (since December 2024) the odds of a £1 bond winning a prize in a given month are 22,000 to 1.

  4. Lottery machine - Wikipedia

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    A lottery machine is the machine used to draw the winning numbers for a lottery. Early lotteries were done by drawing numbers, or winning tickets, from a container. In the UK, numbers of winning Premium Bonds (which were not strictly a lottery, but very similar in approach) were generated by an electronic machine called ERNIE.

  5. Punched card - Wikipedia

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    A $75 U.S. Savings Bond, Series EE issued as a punched card. Eight of the holes record the bond serial number. Cartons of punched cards stored in a United States National Archives Records Service facility in 1959. Each carton could hold 2,000 cards.

  6. RAS syndrome - Wikipedia

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    This means, in effect, repeating one or more words from the acronym. For example: PIN number (expanding to personal identification number number) and ATM machine (expanding to automated teller machine machine). The term RAS syndrome was coined in 2001 in a light-hearted column in New Scientist. [1] [2] [3]

  7. Molecular machine - Wikipedia

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    Molecular machines are a class of molecules typically described as an assembly of a discrete number of molecular components intended to ... Single bond rotary motors ...

  8. USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is ...

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    The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday acknowledged it accidentally fired "several" employees to combat the bird flu and is working to rehire them.

  9. Bates numbering - Wikipedia

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    The Bates Automatic Numbering-Machine or Bates stamper is named after the inventor Edwin Granville Bates of New York City. Bates obtained several US patents for the device in the late 1800s and early 1900s, [1] and in 1895 he received a Longstreth award from the Franklin Institute for his invention of a typographic number machine.