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  2. Tennis scoring system - Wikipedia

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    To make the score stay within the 60 ticks on the clock face, the 45 was changed to 40. Therefore, if both players had 40, the first player to score would receive ten, and that would move the clock to 50. If that player scored a second time in a row, they would be awarded another ten and the clock would move to 60, signifying the end of the game.

  3. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    10 nanoseconds, also a casual term for a short period of time. microsecond: 10 −6 s: One millionth of a second. Symbol is μs millisecond: 10 −3 s: One thousandth of a second. Shortest time unit used on stopwatches. jiffy (electronics) ~ 10 −3 s: Used to measure the time between alternating power cycles. Also a casual term for a short ...

  4. 20 (number) - Wikipedia

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    In combinatorics, 20 is the number of distinct combinations of 6 items taken 3 at a time. Equivalently, it is the central binomial coefficient for n=3 (sequence A000984 in the OEIS). In decimal, 20 is the smallest non-trivial neon number equal to the sum of its digits when raised to the thirteenth power (20 13 = 8192 × 10 13). [citation needed]

  5. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    The achievement of, a generally positive feat, three times in a game, or another achievement based on the number three [6] Several: 3+ Three or more but not many. Small gross: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) [7] Great hundred: 120 Ten dozen (10x12) or six score (6x20), also known as long-hundred or twelfty [8] [9] None: 0 Zero Lakh: 100,000

  6. Score (sport) - Wikipedia

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    A tennis scoreboard. Cyril Saulnier has lost the first two sets.. In sport, score is a quantitative measure of the relative performance of opponents in a sporting discipline. . Score is normally measured in the abstract unit of points, and events in the competition can raise or lower the score of the involved part

  7. Cricket (darts) - Wikipedia

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    The first player to hit a number three times owns that number and it is said to be opened. Further hits on the opened number score that number of points (e.g. triple 20 gains 60 points) until the opponent also hits that number three times and closes it, then that number is removed from play. The double ring scores double the number's value and ...

  8. Vigesimal - Wikipedia

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    In the King James Bible, the term score is used over 130 times, though a single score is always expressed as "twenty". Score is still occasionally used to denote groups of 20 analogously to the use of dozen to quantify groups of 12. Other languages have terms similar to score, such as Danish and Norwegian snes.

  9. Magic number (sports) - Wikipedia

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    The magic number can also be calculated as W B + GR B − W A + 1, where W B is the number of wins that Team B has in the season; GR B is the number of games remaining for Team B in the season; W A is the number of wins that Team A has in the season; This second formula basically says: Assume Team B wins every remaining game