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  2. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    Order of operations. In mathematics and computer programming, the order of operations is a collection of rules that reflect conventions about which operations to perform first in order to evaluate a given mathematical expression . These rules are formalized with a ranking of the operations. The rank of an operation is called its precedence, and ...

  3. Help talk:Alphabetical order - Wikipedia

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    I've been reworking a lot of categories for alphabetical order. Mainly, I've been doing a lot of category pages for genera of plants, that is, pages listing the species in some genus or another. And I've been making good use of the fact that sort keys beginning with lower case letters appear in an alphabet following the alphabet for sort keys ...

  4. Entropy (order and disorder) - Wikipedia

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    A measure of disorder in the universe or of the unavailability of the energy in a system to do work. [7] Entropy and disorder also have associations with equilibrium. [8] Technically, entropy, from this perspective, is defined as a thermodynamic property which serves as a measure of how close a system is to equilibrium—that is, to perfect ...

  5. Lexicographic order - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the lexicographic or lexicographical order (also known as lexical order, or dictionary order) is a generalization of the alphabetical order of the dictionaries to sequences of ordered symbols or, more generally, of elements of a totally ordered set . There are several variants and generalizations of the lexicographical ordering.

  6. German Order (distinction) - Wikipedia

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    The German Order ( German: Deutscher Orden) was the highest award that the Nazi Party could bestow on an individual for his services to the "state and party". It was designed by Benno von Arent. Adolf Hitler awarded the first such order posthumously to Reichsminister Fritz Todt during Todt's funeral in February 1942. [1]

  7. ABC News - Wikipedia

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    ABC News Now was a 24-hour cable news network that launched on July 26, 2004, as a digital subchannel by ABC News, being the company's second attempt in the 24-hour cable news world after Satellite News Channel. It was offered via digital television, broadband and streaming video at ABCNews.com [28] and on mobile phones.

  8. Order - Wikipedia

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    Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica. Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood. Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...

  9. Tim Bowden - Wikipedia

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    Tim Bowden. Timothy Gibson Bowden AM (born 2 August 1937), is an Australian author, radio and television broadcaster and producer, and oral historian. He was born in Hobart, Tasmania, and studied at the University of Tasmania, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Bowden's work has included hosting the Australian Broadcasting ...