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  2. Check digit - Wikipedia

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    The final digit of a Universal Product Code, International Article Number, Global Location Number or Global Trade Item Number is a check digit computed as follows: [3] [4]. Add the digits in the odd-numbered positions from the left (first, third, fifth, etc.—not including the check digit) together and multiply by three.

  3. Indigo revolt - Wikipedia

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    The Indigo revolt (or Nil bidroha; Bengali: নীল বিদ্রোহ) was a peasant movement and subsequent uprising of indigo farmers against the indigo planters, that arose in Bengal in 1859, and continued for over a year.

  4. Computer reservation system - Wikipedia

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    The MARS-1 train ticket reservation system was designed and planned in the 1950s by the Japanese National Railways' R&D Institute, now the Railway Technical Research Institute, with the system eventually being produced by Hitachi in 1958. [6]

  5. World Wide Web - Wikipedia

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    The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [1] It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer ...

  6. List of airline codes (I) - Wikipedia

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    IndiGo: IFLY India InterGlobe Aviation IIL India International Airways: INDIA INTER India IFC Indian Air Force: INDIAN AIRFORCE India IC IAC Indian Airlines: INDAIR India IDR Indicator Company: INDICATOR Hungary I9 IBU Indigo Airlines: INDIGO BLUE United States VP AXC Indochina Airlines: AIRSPUP Vietnam defunct IDA Indonesia Air Transport ...

  7. Inigo Jones - Wikipedia

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    Inigo Jones (15 July 1573 – 21 June 1652) was an English architect who was first significant [1] architect in England in the early modern era and the first to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings. [2]

  8. Boarding pass - Wikipedia

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    Paper boarding passes are issued either by agents at a check-in counter, self-service kiosks, or by the airline's web check-in site. BCBP can be printed at the airport by an ATB (Automated Ticket & Boarding Pass) printer or a direct thermal printer, or by a personal inkjet or laser printer. The symbology for paper boarding passes is PDF417 ...

  9. Indigo children - Wikipedia

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    [30] Linking the concept of indigo children with the distaste for the use of Ritalin to control ADHD, Robert Todd Carroll states "The hype and near-hysteria surrounding the use of Ritalin has contributed to an atmosphere that makes it possible for a book like Indigo Children to be taken seriously. Given the choice, who wouldn't rather believe ...