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  2. Lorem ipsum - Wikipedia

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    Using Lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a webpage design proposal One of the earliest examples of the Lorem ipsum placeholder text on 1960s advertising. In publishing and graphic design, Lorem ipsum (/ ˌ l ɔː. r ə m ˈ ɪ p. s ə m /) is a placeholder text commonly used to demonstrate the visual form of a document or a typeface without relying on meaningful content.

  3. List of United States presidential assassination attempts and ...

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    This article lists assassinations and assassination attempts on incumbent and former presidents and presidents-elect, but not on those who had not yet been elected president. Four sitting presidents have been killed: Abraham Lincoln (1865, by John Wilkes Booth), James A. Garfield (1881, by Charles J. Guiteau), William McKinley (1901, by Leon ...

  4. Thought experiment - Wikipedia

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    A thought experiment is a device with which one performs an intentional, structured process of intellectual deliberation in order to speculate, within a specifiable problem domain, about potential consequents (or antecedents) for a designated antecedent (or consequent). [14]

  5. Melde's experiment - Wikipedia

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    Melde's experiment is a scientific experiment carried out in 1859 by the German physicist Franz Melde on the standing waves produced in a tense cable originally set oscillating by a tuning fork, later improved with connection to an electric vibrator. This experiment, "a lecture-room standby", [1] attempted to demonstrate that mechanical waves ...

  6. Binomial distribution - Wikipedia

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    The binomial distribution is frequently used to model the number of successes in a sample of size n drawn with replacement from a population of size N. If the sampling is carried out without replacement, the draws are not independent and so the resulting distribution is a hypergeometric distribution, not a binomial one.

  7. Technical report - Wikipedia

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    Technical report. A technical report (also scientific report) is a document that describes the process, progress, or results of technical or scientific research or the state of a technical or scientific research problem. [1][2] It might also include recommendations and conclusions of the research. Unlike other scientific literature, such as ...

  8. Notepad++ - Wikipedia

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    Notepad++ is a source code editor. It features syntax highlighting, code folding and limited autocompletion for programming, scripting, and markup languages, but not intelligent code completion or syntax checking. As such, it may properly highlight code written in a supported schema, but whether the syntax is internally sound or compilable ...

  9. Sulfur - Wikipedia

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    Sulfur is an essential component of all living cells. It is the eighth most abundant element in the human body by weight, [ 100 ] about equal in abundance to potassium, and slightly greater than sodium and chlorine. [ 101 ] A 70 kg (150 lb) human body contains about 140 grams (4.9 oz) of sulfur. [ 102 ]