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  2. Decimal separator - Wikipedia

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    Any such symbol can be called a decimal mark, decimal marker, or decimal sign. Symbol-specific names are also used; decimal point and decimal comma refer to a dot (either baseline or middle ) and comma respectively, when it is used as a decimal separator; these are the usual terms used in English, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] with the aforementioned ...

  3. Desert tortoise - Wikipedia

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    Of these, 45.3% showed signs of mild disease, 16.2% of moderate disease, and 4.5% of severe disease, and blood tests revealed that 82.7% of tortoises had antibodies to mycoplasma, and 26.6% had antibodies to herpesvirus (which means the tortoises were seropositive for these two diseases, and indicate previous exposure to the causative agents).

  4. Tax - Wikipedia

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    A lump-sum tax is a tax that is a fixed amount, no matter the change in circumstance of the taxed entity. This in actuality is a regressive tax as those with lower income must use a higher percentage of their income than those with higher income and therefore the effect of the tax reduces as a function of income.

  5. Newton's method - Wikipedia

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    def f (x): return x ** 2-2 # f(x) = x^2 - 2 def f_prime (x): return 2 * x # f'(x) = 2x def newtons_method (x0, f, f_prime, tolerance, epsilon, max_iterations): """Newton's method Args: x0: The initial guess f: The function whose root we are trying to find f_prime: The derivative of the function tolerance: Stop when iterations change by less ...

  6. Programming language - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 28 February 2025. There is 1 pending revision awaiting review. Language for communicating instructions to a machine The source code for a computer program in C. The gray lines are comments that explain the program to humans. When compiled and run, it will give the output "Hello, world!". A programming ...

  7. C syntax - Wikipedia

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    Despite that, the radix has historically been binary (base 2), meaning numbers like 1/2 or 1/4 are exact, but not 1/10, 1/100 or 1/3. With decimal floating point all the same numbers are exact plus numbers like 1/10 and 1/100, but still not e.g. 1/3. No known implementation does opt into the decimal radix for the previously known to be binary ...

  8. Time formatting and storage bugs - Wikipedia

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    The first version of Microsoft Schedule+ as bundled with version 3.0 of the Microsoft Mail email client will refuse to work [needs update] with years greater than 2020 or beyond, due to the fact that the program was designed to operate within a 100-year time window ranging from 1920 to 2019. As a result, the date can only be set as high as 31 ...

  9. Unicode - Wikipedia

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    This number arises from the limitations of the UTF-16 character encoding, which can encode the 2 16 code points in the range U+0000 through U+FFFF except for the 2 11 code points in the range U+D800 through U+DFFF, which are used as surrogate pairs to encode the 2 20 code points in the range U+10000 through U+10FFFF.