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  2. List of random number generators - Wikipedia

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    However, generally they are considerably slower (typically by a factor 2–10) than fast, non-cryptographic random number generators. These include: Stream ciphers. Popular choices are Salsa20 or ChaCha (often with the number of rounds reduced to 8 for speed), ISAAC, HC-128 and RC4. Block ciphers in counter mode.

  3. Raycom Media - Wikipedia

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    Raycom Media. Raycom Media, Inc. was an American television broadcasting company based in Montgomery, Alabama. Raycom owned and/or provided services for 65 television stations and two radio stations across 44 markets in 20 states. Raycom, through its Community Newspaper Holdings subsidiary, also owned multiple newspapers in small and medium ...

  4. Technological singularity - Wikipedia

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    The technological singularity—or simply the singularity —is a hypothetical future point in time at which technological growth becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, resulting in unforeseeable consequences for human civilization.

  5. Radar beacon - Wikipedia

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    In the United States a longer duty cycle is used, 50% for battery-powered buoys (20 seconds on, 20 seconds off) and 75% for on-shore beacons. Ramarks are wide-band beacons which transmit continuously on the radar bands without having to be triggered by an incoming radar signal. The transmission forms a line of Morse characters on the display ...

  6. Falcon Heavy - Wikipedia

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    The initial test flight for the first Falcon Heavy lifted off on 6 February 2018, at 20:45 UTC, carrying its dummy payload, Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster, beyond Mars orbit. Conception and funding. Musk first mentioned Falcon Heavy in a September 2005 news update, referring to a customer request from 18 months prior.

  7. Insensitivity to sample size - Wikipedia

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    Insensitivity to sample size is a cognitive bias that occurs when people judge the probability of obtaining a sample statistic without respect to the sample size. For example, in one study, subjects assigned the same probability to the likelihood of obtaining a mean height of above six feet [183 cm] in samples of 10, 100, and 1,000 men.

  8. TNT equivalent - Wikipedia

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    TNT equivalent is a convention for expressing energy, typically used to describe the energy released in an explosion.The ton of TNT is a unit of energy defined by convention to be 4.184 gigajoules (1 gigacalorie), which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of TNT.

  9. 50 (number) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics. 50 as the sum of two non-zero squares. Fifty is the smallest number that is the sum of two non-zero square numbers in two distinct ways: 50 = 1 2 + 7 2 = 5 2 + 5 2 (see image). [1] It is also the sum of three squares, 50 = 3 2 + 4 2 + 5 2, and the sum of four squares, 50 = 6 2 + 3 2 + 2 2 + 1 2. It is a Harshad number.