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  2. Reverse geocoding - Wikipedia

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    Reverse geocoding is the process of converting a location as described by geographic coordinates (latitude, longitude) to a human-readable address or place name. It is the opposite of forward geocoding (often referred to as address geocoding or simply "geocoding"), hence the term reverse. Reverse geocoding permits the identification of nearby street addresses, places, and/or areal subdivisions ...

  3. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    Twitter launched the beta version of their "Verified Accounts" service on June 11, 2009, allowing people with public profiles to announce their account name. The profile pages of these accounts display a badge indicating their status. [326]

  4. Open API - Wikipedia

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    Open API An open API (often referred to as a public API) is a publicly available application programming interface that provides developers with programmatic access to a (possibly proprietary) software application or web service. [1] Open APIs are APIs that are published on the internet and are free to access by consumers. [2]

  5. Nginx - Wikipedia

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    Nginx (pronounced "engine x" [8] / ˌɛndʒɪnˈɛks / EN-jin-EKS, stylized as NGINX or nginx) is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. The software was created by Russian developer Igor Sysoev and publicly released in 2004. [9] Nginx is free and open-source software, released under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. A large ...

  6. Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Post-1961 Dublin street sign displaying the street name in Irish and English, with postal district number In Dublin city and its suburbs, a system of postal districts was introduced in 1917 by the Royal Mail with the prefix "D", and retained after Ireland became an independent country, without the prefix. However the use of district numbers by the public did not begin until 1961, [6] when ...

  7. Englewood, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Englewood is a city in Montgomery County, Ohio, United States. The population was 13,463 at the 2020 census. A northern suburb of Dayton, it is part of the Dayton metropolitan area.

  8. Fast inverse square root - Wikipedia

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    Lighting and reflection calculations, as in the video game OpenArena, use the fast inverse square root code to compute angles of incidence and reflection. Fast inverse square root, sometimes referred to as Fast InvSqrt () or by the hexadecimal constant 0x5F3759DF, is an algorithm that estimates , the reciprocal (or multiplicative inverse) of the square root of a 32- bit floating-point number ...

  9. Cryptanalysis of the Enigma - Wikipedia

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    A series of three rotors from an Enigma machine scrambler. When loaded in the machine, these rotors connect with the entry plate on the right and the reflector drum on the left. The Enigma rotor machine was potentially an excellent system. It generated a polyalphabetic substitution cipher, with a period before repetition of the substitution alphabet that was much longer than any message, or ...