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  2. Rule of three (writing) - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] Slogans, film titles, and a variety of other things have been structured in threes, a tradition that grew out of oral storytelling [3] and continues in narrative fiction. Examples include the Three Little Pigs, Three Billy Goats Gruff, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and the Three Musketeers. Similarly, adjectives are often grouped in ...

  3. Category:Fictional trios - Wikipedia

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    The Three Army Surgeons; The Three Aunts; The Three Bears (Looney Tunes) Three Blind Mice; Three Busy Debras; The Three Caballeros; The Three Clever Kings; Three Dirty Dwarves; The Three Little Pigs; The Three Philosophers; The Three Princes of Serendip; The Three Ravens; The Three Spinners; Three Witches; The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars ...

  4. Symbols of grouping - Wikipedia

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    [2] A superscript is understood to be grouped as long as it continues in the form of a superscript. For example if an x has a superscript of the forma+b, the sum is the exponent. For example: x 2+3, it is understood that the 2+3 is grouped, and that the exponent is the sum of 2 and 3. These rules are understood by all mathematicians.

  5. Ellipsis - Wikipedia

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    In Chinese, the ellipsis is six dots (in two groups of three dots, occupying the same horizontal or vertical space as two characters). In horizontally written text the dots are commonly vertically centered along the midline (halfway between the Roman descent and Roman ascent, or equivalently halfway between the Roman baseline and the capital ...

  6. Alphabet - Wikipedia

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    Languages may fail to achieve a one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds in any of several ways: A language may represent a given phoneme by combinations of letters rather than just a single letter. Two-letter combinations are called digraphs, and three-letter groups are called trigraphs.

  7. Glossary of mathematical symbols - Wikipedia

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    3. Between two groups, may mean that the first one is a proper subgroup of the second one. > (greater-than sign) 1. Strict inequality between two numbers; means and is read as "greater than". 2. Commonly used for denoting any strict order. 3. Between two groups, may mean that the second one is a proper subgroup of the first one. ≤ 1.

  8. Size of groups, organizations, and communities - Wikipedia

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    Groups with three members (triads, trios, troikas, etc.) are hard to maintain. After all, it is easier to deal with one other person than with two. Besides, two of the people in a triad are apt to find it easier to relate to each other than to the other partner. That can motivate the neglected party to drop out of the group. [3]

  9. List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

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    95 characters; the 52 alphabet characters belong to the Latin script. The remaining 43 belong to the common script. The 33 characters classified as ASCII Punctuation & Symbols are also sometimes referred to as ASCII special characters. Often only these characters (and not other Unicode punctuation) are what is meant when an organization says a ...