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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. The Dresden Files - Wikipedia

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    The Dresden Files. The Dresden Files is a series of contemporary fantasy / mystery novels written by American author Jim Butcher. The first novel, Storm Front —which was also Butcher's writing debut—was published in 2000 by Roc Books . The books are written as a first-person narrative from the perspective of private investigator and wizard ...

  4. Fortuna (PRNG) - Wikipedia

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    Fortuna (PRNG) Fortuna is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CS-PRNG) devised by Bruce Schneier and Niels Ferguson and published in 2003. It is named after Fortuna, the Roman goddess of chance. FreeBSD uses Fortuna for /dev/random and /dev/urandom is symbolically linked to it since FreeBSD 11. [1]

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  6. 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 ...

  7. PDF - Wikipedia

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    Yes. Website. iso .org /standard /75839 .html. Portable Document Format ( PDF ), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

  8. Wordle - Wikipedia

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    Mode (s) Single-player. Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of coloured tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. Wordle has a single daily solution, with all ...

  9. Shannon's source coding theorem - Wikipedia

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    In information theory, the source coding theorem (Shannon 1948) [2] informally states that (MacKay 2003, pg. 81, [3] Cover 2006, Chapter 5 [4]): N i.i.d. random variables each with entropy H(X) can be compressed into more than N H(X) bits with negligible risk of information loss, as N → ∞; but conversely, if they are compressed into fewer than N H(X) bits it is virtually certain that ...