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  2. On Exactitude in Science - Wikipedia

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    Influences and legacy. "On Exactitude in Science" elaborates on a concept in Lewis Carroll 's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded: a fictional map that had "the scale of a mile to the mile." One of Carroll's characters notes some practical difficulties with this map and states that "we now use the country itself, as its own map, and I assure you it does ...

  3. Template:Please see - Wikipedia

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    Examples Detailed example. For example, you wanted to discuss the deletion and redirecting of the article Pussycat to the article Cat. A discussion could take place at Talk:Pussycat#Let's delete Pussycat!; you could then place the wikitext {{subst: Please see | Talk:Pussycat#Let's delete Pussycat!}} in the Talk:Cat page. When the edit was saved ...

  4. One-form (differential geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Examples The most basic non-trivial differential one-form is the "change in angle" form d θ . {\displaystyle d\theta .} This is defined as the derivative of the angle "function" θ ( x , y ) {\displaystyle \theta (x,y)} (which is only defined up to an additive constant), which can be explicitly defined in terms of the atan2 function.

  5. One-act play - Wikipedia

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    One act plays make up the overwhelming majority of Fringe Festival shows including at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of recorded Western drama: in ancient Greece, Cyclops, a satyr play by Euripides, is an early example. The satyr play was a farcical short work that came after a ...

  6. Database design - Wikipedia

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    Database design is the organization of data according to a database model. The designer determines what data must be stored and how the data elements interrelate. With this information, they can begin to fit the data to the database model. [1] A database management system manages the data accordingly.

  7. Perspective (graphical) - Wikipedia

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    Perspective (graphical) Linear or point-projection perspective (from Latin perspicere 'to see through') is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. [citation needed] Linear perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by ...

  8. Application software - Wikipedia

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    Application software. An application program ( software application, or application, or app for short) is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task other than one relating to the operation of the computer itself, [1] typically to be used by end-users. [2] Word processors, media players, and accounting software are examples.

  9. Mind map - Wikipedia

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    Results include that average users create only a few mind maps (mean=2.7), average mind maps are rather small (31 nodes) with each node containing about three words (median). However, there were exceptions. One user created more than 200 mind maps, the largest mind map consisted of more than 50,000 nodes and the largest node contained ~7,500 words.