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  2. Ponzi scheme - Wikipedia

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    Howe offered a solely female clientele an 8% monthly interest rate and then stole the money that the women had invested. She was eventually discovered and served three years in prison. [2] The Ponzi scheme was also previously described in novels; Charles Dickens's 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit and his 1857 novel Little Dorrit both feature such a ...

  3. Baccarat - Wikipedia

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    Baccarat pallet and cards. Baccarat or baccara (/ ˈ b æ k ə r æ t, b ɑː k ə ˈ r ɑː /; French:) is a card game played at casinos.It is a comparing card game played between two hands, the "player" and the "banker".

  4. Procrastination - Wikipedia

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    Statue of Paul Pato, the personification of procrastination, made by János Nagy in Szőgyén (now: Svodín). Procrastination is the act of unnecessarily and voluntarily delaying or postponing something despite knowing that there could be negative consequences for doing so.

  5. Discounted cash flow - Wikipedia

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    In discount cash flow analysis, all future cash flows are estimated and discounted by using cost of capital to give their present values (PVs). The sum of all future cash flows, both incoming and outgoing, is the net present value (NPV), which is taken as the value of the cash flows in question; [2] see aside.

  6. Gacha game - Wikipedia

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    Most gacha games are free-to-play (F2P) mobile games. [1] [2] The gacha game model began to be widely used in the early 2010s, particularly in Japan. [1] [2] Gacha mechanics have become an integral part of Japanese mobile game culture. [3] The game mechanism is also increasingly used in Chinese and Korean games, as well as European and American ...

  7. Quantum entanglement - Wikipedia

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    Quantum entanglement is the phenomenon of a group of particles being generated, interacting, or sharing spatial proximity in such a way that the quantum state of each particle of the group cannot be described independently of the state of the others, including when the particles are separated by a large distance.

  8. Nash equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    In game theory, the Nash equilibrium is the most commonly-used solution concept for non-cooperative games.A Nash equilibrium is a situation where no player could gain by changing their own strategy (holding all other players' strategies fixed). [1]

  9. Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome - Wikipedia

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    [2]: 29 Pacing of activities can help avoid worsening symptoms, and counselling may help in coping with the illness. [8] Before the COVID-19 pandemic, ME/CFS affected 2 to 9 out of every 1000 people, depending on the definition. [9] However, many people with long COVID fit ME/CFS diagnostic criteria. [15] ME/CFS occurs more often in women than ...