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2. One-drop rule - Wikipedia

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   The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [ 1][ 2] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic assignment ...

3. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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   1/52! chance of a specific shuffle Mathematics: The chances of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in any specific order is around 1.24 × 10 −68 (or exactly 1 ⁄ 52!) [4] Computing: The number 1.4 × 10 −45 is approximately equal to the smallest positive non-zero value that can be represented by a single-precision IEEE floating-point value.

4. Glycerol - Wikipedia

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   Triglyceride 3 NaOH / H 2 O Δ 3 × soap 3 × glycerol Triglycerides can be saponified with sodium hydroxide to give glycerol and fatty sodium salt or soap. Typical plant sources include soybeans or palm. Animal-derived tallow is another source. Approximately 950,000 tons per year are produced in the United States and Europe; 350,000 tons of glycerol were produced per year in the U.S. alone ...

5. The 1% Club (American game show) - Wikipedia

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   The 1% Club is an American game show, with its setup identically based on the British game show of the same name.Contestants are given a very short amount time to solve brain teaser questions, with questions getting significantly more difficult as the game continues, as statistically a progressively smaller percentage of people, according to the producers, answered each subsequent question ...

6. Out-of-order execution - Wikipedia

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   The first machine to use out-of-order execution was the CDC 6600 (1964), designed by James E. Thornton, which uses a scoreboard to avoid conflicts. It permits an instruction to execute if its source operand (read) registers aren't to be written to by any unexecuted earlier instruction (true dependency) and the destination (write) register not be a register used by any unexecuted earlier ...

7. North Macedonia - Wikipedia

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   North Macedonia (/ ˌ m æ s ɪ ˈ d oʊ n i ə / MASS-ih-DOH-nee-ə), [c] officially the Republic of North Macedonia, [d] is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe.It shares land borders with Greece to the south, Albania to the west, Bulgaria to the east, Kosovo [e] to the northwest and Serbia to the north. [8]