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  2. Napoleonic Code - Wikipedia

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    The Napoleonic Code (French: Code Napoléon), officially the Civil Code of the French (French: Code civil des Français; simply referred to as Code civil), is the French civil code established during the French Consulate in 1804 and still in force in France, although heavily and frequently amended since its inception. [1]

  3. Hospital emergency codes - Wikipedia

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    Hospital emergency codes are coded messages often announced over a public address system of a hospital to alert staff to various classes of on-site emergencies. The use of codes is intended to convey essential information quickly and with minimal misunderstanding to staff while preventing stress and panic among visitors to the hospital.

  4. ASCII - Wikipedia

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    ASCII (/ ˈ æ s k iː / ⓘ ASS-kee), [3]: 6 an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. . ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devic

  5. The Da Vinci Code - Wikipedia

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    The da Vinci code (paperback) (special illustrated ed.), Broadway, March 28, 2006, released 200,000 copies. Goldsman, Akiva (May 19, 2006), The Da Vinci Code Illustrated Screenplay: Behind the Scenes of the Major Motion Picture, Howard, Ron; Brown, Dan introd, Doubleday, Broadway, the day of the film's release. Including film stills, behind-the ...

  6. Comma-free code - Wikipedia

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    A comma-free code is block code in which no concatenation of two code words contains a valid code word that overlaps both. Comma-free codes are also known as self-synchronizing block codes because no synchronization is required to find the beginning of a code word. See also. Self-synchronizing code; References

  7. Morse code - Wikipedia

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    Chart of the Morse code 26 letters and 10 numerals [1]. This Morse key was originally used by Gotthard railway, later by a shortwave radio amateur [2]. Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

  8. Area codes 305, 786, and 645 - Wikipedia

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    In mitigation, area code 786 was installed as an overlay on March 1, 1998. [6] [7] [8] The overlay numbering plan area originally comprised only Miami-Dade County, although it was clear the remainder of area code 305 would eventually be overlaid with area code 786. [8] [9] Monroe County was added to area code 786 on September 1, 2001. [10] [11]

  9. Free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    "Free and open-source software" (FOSS) is an umbrella term for software that is simultaneously considered both free software and open-source software. [5] The precise definition of the terms "free software" and "open-source software" applies them to any software distributed under terms that allow users to use, modify, and redistribute said software in any manner they see fit, without requiring ...