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2. Generator (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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   In mathematics and physics, the term generator or generating set may refer to any of a number of related concepts. The underlying concept in each case is that of a smaller set of objects, together with a set of operations that can be applied to it, that result in the creation of a larger collection of objects, called the generated set .

3. Mathematics - Wikipedia

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   The Babylonians also possessed a place-value system and used a sexagesimal numeral system which is still in use today for measuring angles and time. [ 76 ] In the 6th century BC, Greek mathematics began to emerge as a distinct discipline and some Ancient Greeks such as the Pythagoreans appeared to have considered it a subject in its own right ...

4. Round-off error - Wikipedia

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   This rounding rule is biased because it always moves the result toward zero. Round-to-nearest: () is set to the nearest floating-point number to . When there is a tie, the floating-point number whose last stored digit is even (also, the last digit, in binary form, is equal to 0) is used.

5. Around the world (card game) - Wikipedia

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   For example, if the value of the card drawn in round 2 is 9, and the next card drawn is 2, the value of the card is drawn between the range 9 - 2 (cards 9, 10, J, Q , K, A) As with card two, there is a third option of "same", which is a prediction that the value will match one of the two cards already present.

6. Machine epsilon - Wikipedia

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   This alternative definition is significantly more widespread: machine epsilon is the difference between 1 and the next larger floating point number.This definition is used in language constants in Ada, C, C++, Fortran, MATLAB, Mathematica, Octave, Pascal, Python and Rust etc., and defined in textbooks like «Numerical Recipes» by Press et al.

7. Spreadsheet - Wikipedia

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   [1] [2] [3] Spreadsheets were developed as computerized analogs of paper accounting worksheets. [4] The program operates on data entered in cells of a table. Each cell may contain either numeric or text data, or the results of formulas that automatically calculate and display a value based on the contents of other cells.