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...[[Special:ContributionScores|Lots of people]] contribute to make this wiki a success. Many of the recent contributors, listed above, have [http://www.ex
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...hat style hat, that quickly evolved to have the current shape and style of a {{w|pork pie hat}}, already used in [[45: Schrodinger]].
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...eology)|cleavage}}," "deeper in the {{w|rift}}," "{{w|orogeny}}," (perhaps a {{w|portmanteau}} of {{w|orgy}} and {{w|erogenous}}), "huge," and "{{w|Thru
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[[Cueball]] is arguing with a {{w|conspiracy theorist}} who believes in some {{rw|conspiracy}}, who is si
..." websites can be made by anyone and have little limitations. The maker of a ".net" does not need to show sources of information or even their name. As
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...y, when I looked at an analog clock, the hand would sometimes seem to take a couple seconds to start ticking. Google "stopped clock illusion".
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...age Service, which limited messages to 160 characters. Twitter has adopted a 140 character limit since its inception, which allowed any given tweet to b
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...ommand that lists the files in the current directory. The computer returns a bizarre error message — it trips over one of the simplest commands, indic
...in a folder called "android_vm" suggests Cueball was attempting to boot up a virtual Android device, but somehow wound up directing the Linux server to
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...]] and he has quite a few wishes, most of them based on the previous wish. A common trope in fiction is that wishing for more wishes is prohibited and f
...ing a wish, where the rules are discussed by the Genie that will grant him a wish.
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...onary.com/define.php?term=vaguetweeting "vaguetweeting"], which is posting a short message of sadness or frustration without context. This is frustratin
...as altruistic as a for-profit company can be). In the comic, ContextBot is a fictitious Google invention which puts context for these statuses, presumab
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...harlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spid
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...er questions. You're hired!' 'Oh, sorry! I'm no longer interested. There's a bunch of future I gotta go check out!'
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...k pieces may also be a reference to {{w|Edward the Black Prince}}, who was a prominent figure in an earlier stage of the Hundred Years War. As you can s
.... The usual gambit of sacrificing a pawn is subverted to be a sacrifice of a high-value piece, as an analogy of what happened at Agincourt.
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...y}}ing him. This comic inspired several xkcd readers to give Cory Doctorow a red cape and goggles when he won the 2007 EFF Pioneer Award. Cory Doctorow'
:Man in Red Cape and Goggles: Are you a blogger? I play one of you at our festivals!
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...problem, Cueball "Just Gives Up" and puts all his items and furniture into a box labeled "Misc" for miscellaneous, with the exception of his laptop, ca
...osts on how to "hack" your life and improve it. Life hacking appears to be a common theme in xkcd, such as in [[2024: Light Hacks]].
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...nsylvania, where the film is set. The folklore ritual consists in removing a {{w|groundhog}} from its burrow. If the sun is shining and the groundhog ca
...oncept of {{w|Absolute Infinity}}, which he equaled with {{w|God}}. It was a common concern in Cantor's time to preserve the consistency between mathema
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...of human, if anything happens to said box on wheels, such as crashing into a wall, the humans inside may be badly injured, if not killed. Had they evolv
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...ons, Cassini, Curiosity, TiME, and Project M. But c'mon, if the Earth were a basketball, in 40 years no human's been more than half an inch from the sur
...]] is referring is [https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/73388356461019136 a tweet] by {{w|Neil deGrasse Tyson}}, an American astrophysicist and science
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This comic was posted right after the '''weekend''', on a Monday, so it was on time to emphasize that ''we all hate Mondays''.
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...ongst teenagers, which is probably why he now feels that they are too easy a target for him.
...this has similarities to the emos' refrain above, or he may just be taking a swipe at them by suggesting that they think themselves above normal scienti
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...stent in the 1970s, and his telephone has a {{w|rotary dial}}, rather than a {{w|touch tone}}, so he can't "press" 1.
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...his chart would have to be nested in itself—with each planet replaced by a copy of the chart—at least three levels deep.
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...always mean "two". As with the question of how many spaces should go after a period, it can turn acrimonious surprisingly fast unless all three of them
...use of the word "couple" to refer to exactly one pair of people who are in a romantic relationship.
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...ographies. Unsurprisingly, {{w|English-language spelling reform}} has been a common topic of discussion over the years.
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...wiftKey}} on his smartphone and brags about this to [[Megan]]. SwiftKey is a product that is installable on {{w|iOS}}/{{w|Android (operating system)|And
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...yone's caught by surprise when a theory of quantum gravity is developed by a sound technician wearing patent leather shoes while editing Clerks II.
...al universities was beneficial to the science of physics, as the duties as a patent clerk were not challenging to him, paid enough, and allowed him to w
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...m in the closet. By the second month dirty clothes are no longer stored in a laundry hamper and are just dumped on the floor, and by the end of the seme
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...side a box that is floating in a beam of heavenly light. Inside the box is a pair of shoes with five toes - and with these magic shoes, he can outrun {{
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| titletext = FYI: I'll be releasing a wolf into a randomly-chosen front yard sometime in the next 30 years. Now your fear is
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...bidden for you to interfere with human history until you've at least taken a class on it.
...n for "be right back". He soon returns, commenting that he found Hitler in a very noisy bunker in the year 1945.
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...no questions asked, for any candidate who describes themselves as 'more of a deficit sugar glider.'
...to reduce the deficit, pay off national debt, and balance the budget is by a combination of increasing taxes and cutting government spending."
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...ty theory that if you attempt to simplify a system of problems by creating a new system of evaluation for the problems you often have instead made the p
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...aining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community, rather than
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...being a successful rapper to an ambitious politician. This may be seen as a sort of {{w|gentrification}} of black culture, one of the main themes of th
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...sometimes gave away "perks" to the users with the highest Klout scores, as a means of advertising the products of their sponsors. Generally, the informa
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...guous and clunky. None of these terms ever became popular enough to become a consensus term. Similarly for the period from 2010-2019, terms like "the 20
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This comic shows a graph with three parts.
...ing and fossil organisms) from bottom to top of which animals would win in a fight. Secondly, the names within the genus are then sorted by coolness of
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...you pledge more than $50 you'll get on the VIP list and have first dibs on a slot on ANY of the pledge levels in the actual campaign.
...If the Kickstarter is for a book, a large donation makes you eligible for a signed copy.
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...work hard and bring money home to your family to put food on the table. If a man is out of work he may be stressed out about how to "bring home the baco
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| titletext = Someday I'll be the first to get a Ph. D in 'Undeclared'.
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...an internet browser will make the links of the pages that you have visited a different color than the links that you have not visited. In the case of {{
...e. However, on hovering the cursor over the article link, only one word at a time is underlined, showing that the links are separate.
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...g with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'
...' and instead of a secret passage, the wall swings around and takes you to a message "You have terrible taste".
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...y of code that doesn't work and people who are wrong, which bodes well for a return to normalcy. [Note: Click to read context for the cancer comics. She
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...f challenge to break into it, while all the valuables are simply stored in a shoe box ''beside'' the vault.
...uch easier to simply break open the safe with brute force than to pick it. A simple and nerdy way to open the vault with brute force would be to use can
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...en onscreen, with its actions often performed via robots, cyborgs (usually a Terminator), and other computer systems.
...ng too focused on oneself can be a mark of obsession and anxiety (which is a common theme in XKCD), or of overly philosophical naval-gazing. Hence, in t
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...non, where writers impose rules or patterns in their works. {{w|Haiku}} is a well known example of this.
...ad that restriction. Twitter is frequently used by well-known comedians as a place to make interesting jokes and observations. It should be noted that t
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...''South Park''?". The two people are generally chosen carefully to fulfill a particular role, for example:
...e quizzes may be used as a tool to portray a particular person or group in a certain way, or alternatively may be light-hearted jest.
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...someday DO dream of electric sheep, don't forget to declare sheepCount as a long int.
...oll back over to 000000. Causing or failing to prevent integer overflow is a common mistake by programmers that may have software security consequences.
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This comic presents a poem about a {{w|god}}'s dilemma of whether to create the world using {{w|Perl}} or {{w|
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...the game; however, some parts of some blocks have been erased, likely when a line had been deleted because it was full.
...comic as a straight brown bar). On top of the heavenly feeling of getting a piece that fits, the top score is also about to be smashed, as the player w
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...way the panels are drawn below makes a transition from this dark image to a normal comic, with the first normal panel being superimposed on the dark im
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...ch must be checked in order to proceed, although ticking the box is merely a formality, and later versions of reCAPTCHA can simply perform the tests qui
...ly things one might see while driving - e.g. "Check all squares containing a stop sign". If the user clicks enough correct squares, they are permitted t
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...e into an executable program. A section of code is said to be dependent on a second segment of code if the second segment is required for the first segm
...dependency, as you must complete this course before you can enroll in it, a phenomenon called {{w|Catch-22 (logic)|Catch-22}}.
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[[File:white hat.png|thumb|200px|[[White Hat]] is an example of a stick figure character]]
...simplified into single line segments. The majority of [[xkcd]] is drawn in a stick-figure style.
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[[Cueball]] attempts social interaction at what looks like a party owing to the fact that several people have drinks in their hands. Hi
The title text is a continuation of the internal monologue.
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...yone is so hungry for BAD news, but fine, I'll give in to feedback and add a dark mode.
This comic is another in a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] related to the {{w|COVID-19 pandemi
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...xt = Oh no, a musician just burst in through the door confidently twirling a treble clef.
...h {{w|List of mathematical symbols|mathematical symbols}} would be good in a fight if they were made corporeal in two (or three) dimensions.
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...ed one in question is a woman with whom he is in love, a family member, or a relation of some other kind, but presumably the loved one is his partner.
...ght be read to indicate that they have died and that Cueball is descending a cavern in search of the underworld where they have been taken.
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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Randall Munroe|Comics feat
...e time I climb things, open strange doors, and go to goth clubs dressed as a frat guy so I can stand around and look terribly uncomfortable. At frat par
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<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Cueball|Comics featuring C
...y represent the same character from comic to comic. Instead, he represents a generic {{w|everyman}}. In several comics, there are [[:Category:Multiple C
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...of buoyancy for ice in cold sea-water), the iceberg as metaphor represents a system where the large majority is unseen, invisible, or hidden in some way
...citatory neurons firing with no inhibition for a prolonged period would be a {{w|seizure}} (most likely fatal), but there's no reason to exclude inhibit
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...hit the right balance with the 128 bits thing. We can fit MAC addresses in a /64 subnet, and the nanobots will only be able to devour half the planet.
...]] are in orbit while nanobots are devouring the Earth in a swarm. This is a take on the "{{w|Grey goo}}" scenario in which self-replicating nanobots de
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| titletext = Wait, that second one is a woman? ...wait, if that bothers me, then why doesn't... man, this game is n
FPS stands for {{w|First-person shooter|First Person Shooter}}, which is a type of video game (like ''{{w|Halo (series)|Halo}}'' or ''{{w|Doom}}'') in
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...ule on the wall is a direct contradiction to the initial ideas and follows a very simple plan for the day, making willpower only seem necessary for gett
...product, since it is often significantly more expensive than, say, buying a book on time management at the bookstore.
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...related to birds (and even to mammals) than to amphibians. She states, in a patronizing way, that the study of reptiles should more properly be combine
Herpetologists would rightly see this view as a threat to their territory, their budgets and even their existence.
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...omplex. The most important issue to the understanding of the comic is that a matrix can be transformed through various processes. These transformations
...ector and corresponding eigenvalue to match the shoe to its owner. This is a somewhat logical mathematical connection to make as eigenvectors, unchanged
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This comic juxtaposes a familiar exchange with a surreal outcome.
[[Megan]] is returning after a short absence. [[Cueball]] reacts as if she had been gone for years, and ad
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...s for the comic. It also has a lot of other percentages and dates, so take a look if you are interested.
...y some (other) constant with the value of the function. Compare how "slow" a value grows by adding even high values (1, 1001, 2001, 3001, 4001, 5001…)
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...splay them by number of votes. Everyone knows that makes it impossible for a few persistent voices to dominate the discussion.'
...seem as though the opinion was coming from the general population and not a politician or company, as an advertisement would imply. And $20/hour was (a
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This joke is a play on the phrase {{w|context-free grammar}}, which is a technical term used in {{w|formal languages|formal language}} theory.
...ammar!" without any context, and runs off. Because the gag is delivered in a particularly obtuse manner, the title text clears things up by having the c
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...a portmanteau, from the words motor and hotel. A {{w|neologism}} is simply a newly coined word that is not yet in common use.
...this new word is one of the very words used in the process. This is called a [[917|meta]] or "self-referential" joke.
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...sting resources {{w|reinventing the wheel}}, whilst offering their clients a certain amount of simplicity and compatibility between vendors.
...ensome. As a result, someone eventually takes on the challenge of creating a universal standard that everyone can rally around.
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This is a list of comics from 1001 to 1500.
{{comicsrow|1352|2014-04-07|Cosmologist on a Tire Swing}}
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This is the third of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything yo
...ine and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Five-minute comi
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This is the second of three "five-minute comics" Randall posted during a week in November 2010. The introduction to the comic explains everything yo
...ine and saved it. Since then it has been added to explain xkcd. So here is a complete list of all four comics in the entire [[:Category:Five-minute comi
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...}}." The song begins with the following lyrics, of which the title text is a parody:
:Before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack
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...sult rather refers to the insulter}}. On a deeper level, it may imply that a person insulting others is an indication of their own insecurity and weakne
...nd [[Cueball]]). Black Hat takes the traditional saying and twists it into a creepy thought by saying that they are both literally glue and rubber and t
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| titletext = They're a little cagey about exactly where the crossover point lies relative to the l
...companion ({{w|type Ia supernova|type Ia}}). The collapsing mass leads to a violent explosion, one of the most interesting events for astronomers to ob
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...y a bar graph or a scatter graph (sometimes with a line connection to show a trend, even though there is no actual value for non-integers).
...oe|Randall]] was still experimenting with character design, as Cueball has a face in the first two frames.
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...According to the caption at the top, [[James Zetlen]] presumably once made a joke to [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] similar to the one in the comic.
:Cueball: Here, take a bite of this Snapple.
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...is another one of [[Randall|Randall's]] [[:Category:Tips|Tips]], this time a solar energy tip.
...south-facing orientation and pushing it to its logical extreme by assuming a panel on the sun.
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...d attempted to spread around an {{w|urban legend}} that George Clinton had a {{w|Bachelor of Arts}} degree in mathematics, but he found himself believin
...ematics" from the 1996 album {{w|T.A.P.O.A.F.O.M.}}. (The Awesome Power of a Fully Operational Mothership):
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...er than in the purely mathematical sense. It is also very monotonous, like a planet's set orbit, but Kepler doesn't mind this.
The comic could also be seen as a subtle reference to the Kepler space telescope that was searching for exopl
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| titletext = My first try at drawing a real face in years.
In the title text, Randall notes that he has not tried to draw a real face in years, as he mainly draws [[stick figure]]s. In that way this
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...d algorithm}} is an algorithm that calculates the shortest path(s) through a weighted digraph or collection of connected nodes or vertices. The "Wexler"
*The number of this comic is 69. This number is a term for mutual simultaneous oral sex, sex being the subject of the comic.
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...(penta means five in Greek) "{{w|Iamb (foot)|iambs}}" per line. An iamb is a unit of two syllables with the stress falling on the second. The actual bre
with a sort of bouncing rhythm.
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...ng system must be inserted, with no digit being allowed to appear twice in a horizontal or vertical row or in each individual 3×3 grid. The number
.... The joke is that the binary system has only two digits (0 and 1), and as a result binary sudoku puzzles would be trivially easy and thus pointless. Th
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| titletext = And then do it again in a moment now that they're out of Star Power.
...the neck representing guitar frets and a rocker bar on the body simulating a strumming motion. The game now includes other instruments such as drums and
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...he has to travel this rectangle, he worries about the extra time taken as a result of following the path. There are downfalls to this plan, however. Th
...longest path (e.g. Path 3 takes 74% as long as Path 1). Each path also has a corresponding equation for in the upper-right corner representing the time
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| titletext = You're probably thinking, 'has it been a decade?' It's been over thirteen years, buddy.
...el Crichton}}. The film depicts a billionaire who buys an island and opens a zoo/theme park for dinosaurs cloned from DNA recovered from blood found in
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| titletext = The only downside is that it would be a little uncomfortable.
...of cyclist Lance Armstrong's {{w|Livestrong}} charity, which later became a popular fad for all sorts of charitable and non-charitable causes.
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...of the time. In the game, you're a downhill skier who attempts to ski down a hill while avoiding obstacles which cause you to crash (which slows you dow
If you ski too far down the hill a monster similar to one in the comic will begin to chase you; contact with t
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...never been totally satisfied by the explanations for why e to the ix gives a sinusoidal wave.
...meter. Taking these two values and applying them to the value of i in such a manner makes it seem counter-intuitive that it would yield −1 from ba
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