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  2. Chopsticks (hand game) - Wikipedia

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    The game's scores are tracked on the fingers of both hands. Chopsticks (sometimes called Calculator, Splits, or just Sticks) [citation needed] is a hand game for two or more players, in which players extend a number of fingers from each hand and transfer those scores by taking turns tapping one hand against another.

  3. Josephus problem - Wikipedia

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    In the particular counting-out game that gives rise to the Josephus problem, a number of people are standing in a circle waiting to be executed. Counting begins at a specified point in the circle and proceeds around the circle in a specified direction. After a specified number of people are skipped, the next person is executed.

  4. Circle packing - Wikipedia

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    A compact binary circle packing with the most similarly sized circles possible. [7] It is also the densest possible packing of discs with this size ratio (ratio of 0.6375559772 with packing fraction (area density) of 0.910683). [8] There are also a range of problems which permit the sizes of the circles to be non-uniform.

  5. Fork (chess) - Wikipedia

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    For example, a fork by a knight is a knight fork. The attacked pieces are forked. [1] If the king is one of the attacked pieces, the term absolute fork is sometimes used, while a fork not involving the enemy king is a relative fork. [2] A fork of the king and queen, the highest material-gaining fork possible, is sometimes called a royal fork.

  6. Binary decision diagram - Wikipedia

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    The left figure below shows a binary decision tree (the reduction rules are not applied), and a truth table, each representing the function (,,).In the tree on the left, the value of the function can be determined for a given variable assignment by following a path down the graph to a terminal.

  7. Choking emergency? How to do the Heimlich maneuver - AOL

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    A Mass General Brigham emergency care doctor shares step-by-step guidance on how to administer the Heimlich maneuver to adults, children and yourself in a choking event.

  8. This is what the holes in pasta ladles are meant for

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    Photo: Getty. The hole in the center of the ladle is actually used to measure out a single serving of pasta. It works best with spaghetti and linguine.

  9. Dining philosophers problem - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of the dining philosophers problem. Each philosopher has a bowl of spaghetti and can reach two of the forks. In computer science, the dining philosophers problem is an example problem often used in concurrent algorithm design to illustrate synchronization issues and techniques for resolving them.