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2. Guillotine cutting - Wikipedia

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   The ordering step is done once, and the merging step is done m-1 times. Therefore, the run-time of the entire algorithm is O(m 2). When the algorithm returns "yes", it also produces a sequence of guillotine cuts; when it returns "no", it also produces specific subsets of rectangles that cannot be separated by guillotine cuts.

3. List of methods of capital punishment - Wikipedia

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   Often employed as a supplementary part of the execution, e.g., with drawing in hanging, drawing, and quartering. Dismemberment: Used as punishment for high treason in the Ancien régime; also used by several others countries at various points in history. Drowning

4. Guillotine partition - Wikipedia

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   Guillotine partition is the process of partitioning a rectilinear polygon, possibly containing some holes, into rectangles, using only guillotine-cuts. A guillotine-cut (also called an edge-to-edge cut ) is a straight bisecting line going from one edge of an existing polygon to the opposite edge, similarly to a paper guillotine .

5. Guillotine - Wikipedia

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   The guillotine used in Luxembourg between 1789 and 1821. A guillotine (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l ə t iː n / GHIL-ə-teen / ˌ ɡ ɪ l ə ˈ t iː n / GHIL-ə-TEEN / ˈ ɡ i j ə t i n / GHEE-yə-teen) [1] is an apparatus designed for efficiently carrying out executions by beheading. The device consists of a tall, upright frame with a weighted and angled ...

6. Guillotine (magic trick) - Wikipedia

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   The Guillotine is probably the most famous member of a family of illusions featuring the apparent decapitation of a person or other living subject. Decapitation illusions have a long history, with the first documented example dating from the reign of Khufu in ancient Egypt, when a magician named Dedi apparently decapitated and restored birds ...

7. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin - Wikipedia

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   Joseph-Ignace Guillotin (French: [ʒozɛf iɲas ɡijɔtɛ̃]; 28 May 1738 – 26 March 1814) was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing methods.

8. Paper cutter - Wikipedia

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   Paper cutters were developed and patented in 1844 by French inventor Guillaume Massiquot. Later, Milton Bradley patented his own version of the paper cutter in 1879. [1] Since the middle of the 19th century, considerable improvements to the paper cutter have been made by Fomm and Krause of Germany, Furnival in England, and Oswego and Seybold in the United States.

9. Halifax Gibbet - Wikipedia

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   A replica of the Halifax Gibbet on its original site, 2008, with St Mary's Catholic church, Gibbet Street, in the background. The Halifax Gibbet / ˈ h æ l ɪ f æ k s ˈ dʒ ɪ b ɪ t / was an early guillotine used in the town of Halifax, West Yorkshire, England.