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  2. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.

  3. Book cipher - Wikipedia

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    A book cipher is a cipher in which each word or letter in the plaintext of a message is replaced by some code that locates it in another text, the key . A simple version of such a cipher would use a specific book as the key, and would replace each word of the plaintext by a number that gives the position where that word occurs in that book.

  4. List of fictional universes in literature - Wikipedia

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    The Word of Unbinding: 1964 Ursula K. Le Guin: Fantasy realm consisting of an archipelago of islands in a vast ocean that forms the setting for six books and seven short stories. Earwa: The Darkness That Comes Before: 2004 R. Scott Bakker: Fantasy realm that combines alien technology with magic Eight Worlds "Bagatelle" 1974 John Varley: The ...

  5. Redwall (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Redwall is a fantasy novel by Brian Jacques. [ 1] Originally published in 1986, it is the first book of the Redwall series. The book was illustrated by Gary Chalk, with the British cover illustration by Pete Lyon and the US cover by Troy Howell. It is also one of the three Redwall novels to be made into an animated television series (which is ...

  6. Printer's key - Wikipedia

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    A copyright page with the printer's key underlined. This version of the book is the eighteenth printing. The printer's key, also known as the number line, is a line of text printed on a book's copyright page (often the verso of the title page, especially in English-language publishing) used to indicate the print run of the particular edition.

  7. Diceware - Wikipedia

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    Diceware is a method for creating passphrases, passwords, and other cryptographic variables using ordinary dice as a hardware random number generator. For each word in the passphrase, five rolls of a six-sided die are required. The numbers from 1 to 6 that come up in the rolls are assembled as a five-digit number, e.g. 43146.

  8. List of free and open-source software packages - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of free and open-source software packages, computer software licensed under free software licenses and open-source licenses.Software that fits the Free Software Definition may be more appropriately called free software; the GNU project in particular objects to their works being referred to as open-source. [1]

  9. Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia

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    Due to processing power limitations, the program used a probabilistic model (by using a random number generator or RNG) instead of actually generating random text and comparing it to Shakespeare. When the simulator "detected a match" (that is, the RNG generated a certain value or a value within a certain range), the simulator simulated the ...