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  2. Indefinite and fictitious numbers - Wikipedia

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    The number 10,000 is used to express an even larger approximate number, as in Hebrew רבבה r e vâvâh, [36] rendered into Greek as μυριάδες, and to English myriad. [37] Similar usage is found in the East Asian 萬 or 万 (lit. 10,000; pinyin: wàn), and the South Asian lakh (lit. 100,000). [38]

  3. Grimace scale - Wikipedia

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    A drawing by Konrad Lorenz showing facial expressions of a dog. The grimace scale (GS), sometimes called the grimace score, is a method of assessing the occurrence or severity of pain experienced by non-human animals according to objective and blinded scoring of facial expressions, as is done routinely for the measurement of pain in non-verbal humans.

  4. Grimace - Wikipedia

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    Grimace may refer to: A type of facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain; Grimace (composer), a French composer active in the mid-to-late 14th century; Grimace (character), a McDonaldland marketing character developed to promote the restaurant's milkshakes; Grimace scale, a method of assessing the occurrence or severity of pain

  5. Polite number - Wikipedia

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    In number theory, a polite number is a positive integer that can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers. A positive integer which is not polite is called impolite. [1] [2] The impolite numbers are exactly the powers of two, and the polite numbers are the natural numbers that are not powers of two.

  6. Glossary of mathematical jargon - Wikipedia

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    For example, "almost all real numbers are transcendental" because the algebraic real numbers form a countable subset of the real numbers with measure zero. One can also speak of "almost all" integers having a property to mean "all except finitely many", despite the integers not admitting a measure for which this agrees with the previous usage.

  7. List of numeral systems - Wikipedia

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    A form of unary notation called Church encoding is used to represent numbers within lambda calculus. Some email spam filters tag messages with a number of asterisks in an e-mail header such as X-Spam-Bar or X-SPAM-LEVEL. The larger the number, the more likely the email is considered spam. 10: Bijective base-10: To avoid zero: 26: Bijective base-26

  8. Gecker - Wikipedia

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    Gecker vocalizations may also be used as a submissive display when they are paired with a grimace, as shown in patas monkeys. This combination of the gecker/grimace display is demonstrated when a lower ranking individual is in the presence of a more dominant one, such as an observer or higher-ranking monkey.

  9. Numeral (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    For example, 1–4 may be the fingers, 5 'thumb', 6 'wrist', 7 'elbow', 8 'shoulder', etc., across the body and down the other arm, so that the opposite little finger represents a number between 17 (Torres Islands) to 23 . For numbers beyond this, the torso, legs and toes may be used, or one might count back up the other arm and back down the ...