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  2. Unit of time - Wikipedia

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    100 days, roughly equivalent to 1/4 of a year (91.25 days). In Chinese tradition "bǎi rì" is the hundredth day after one's birth, also called Baby's 100 Days Celebration. semester: 18 weeks: A division of the academic year. [6] Literally "six months", also used in this sense. lunar year: 354.37 d: year: 12 mo: 365 or 366 d: common year: 365 d

  3. Hofstadter's law - Wikipedia

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    Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity: [1] [2]

  4. Grade retention - Wikipedia

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    Grade retention or grade repetition is the process of a student repeating a grade after failing the previous year.. In the United States of America, grade retention can be used in kindergarten through to third grade; however, students in high school are usually only retained in the specific failed subject.

  5. Non-numerical words for quantities - Wikipedia

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    Along with numerals, and special-purpose words like some, any, much, more, every, and all, they are quantifiers. Quantifiers are a kind of determiner and occur in many constructions with other determiners, like articles: e.g., two dozen or more than a score. Scientific non-numerical quantities are represented as SI units.

  6. Dean’s List: Duke no longer assigning scores to admissions ...

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    Learn more in The N&O’s roundup of higher education news about why Duke’s admissions leader says scoring student essays is “an artifact of the past.” Dean’s List: Duke no longer ...

  7. Bradford Factor - Wikipedia

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    10 instances of absence, each of one day (10 × 10 × 10) = 1000 points For comparison, a single instance of absence with a duration of one working year is approximately 240 points (1 × 1 × 240). In May 2001, HM Prison Service began using the Bradford Formula to identify staff with high absenteeism due to illness. [ 4 ]

  8. Credit in your golden years: Does your credit score matter ...

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    That’s 10% more than in 2022, and it’s the highest amount of losses ever recorded in a single year. Impostor scams were the most costly, totaling $2.7 billion in reported losses due to fraud ...

  9. Want to live 20 years longer? Study finds 8 habits that can ...

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    The study analyzed lifestyle and mortality data from more than 700,000 U.S. veterans between the ages of 40 and 99 who enrolled in the MillionVeteran Program (MVP) between 2011 and 2019.