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π Isochronous Curves
A tautochrone or isochrone curve (from Greek prefixes tauto- meaning same or iso- equal, and chrono time) is the curve for which the time taken by an object sliding without friction in uniform gravity to its lowest point is independent of its starting point on the curve. The curve is a cycloid, and the time is equal to Ο times the square root of the radius (of the circle which generates the cycloid) over the acceleration of gravity. The tautochrone curve is related to the brachistochrone curve, which is also a cycloid.
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- "Isochronous Curves" | 2018-09-09 | 224 Upvotes 62 Comments
π RTX2010 radiation-hardened microprocessor
The RTX2010 manufactured by Intersil is a radiation hardened stack machine microprocessor which has been used in numerous spacecraft.
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- "RTX2010 βΒ Radiation-hardened stack machine microprocessor" | 2014-11-15 | 156 Upvotes 60 Comments
- "RTX2010 radiation-hardened microprocessor" | 2014-11-14 | 11 Upvotes 5 Comments
π Zalgo Text
Zalgo text, also known as cursed text due to the nature of its use, is digital text that has been modified with numerous combining characters, Unicode symbols used to add diacritics above or below letters, to appear frightening or glitchy.
Named for a 2004 Internet creepypasta story that ascribes it to the influence of an eldritch deity, Zalgo text has become a significant component of many Internet memes, particularly in the "surreal meme" culture. The formatting of Zalgo text also allows it to be used to halt or impair certain computer functions, whether intentionally or not.
π LOOP (programming language)
LOOP is a programming language designed by Uwe SchΓΆning, along with GOTO and WHILE. The only operations supported in the language are assignment, addition and looping.
The key property of the LOOP language is that the functions it can compute are exactly the primitive recursive functions.
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- "LOOP (programming language)" | 2018-12-25 | 36 Upvotes 7 Comments
π Wikipedia dwm article deletion: No consensus
Reasons for my No consensus closure of Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dwm (2nd nomination)
If you want to make any comments or ask questions about this closure, please use User talk:Flyguy649/Dwm rather than my talk page. I hope the community can live with my decision; if not, there is deletion review.
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- "Wikipedia dwm article deletion: No consensus" | 2010-03-12 | 9 Upvotes 13 Comments
π Xsnow
Xsnow is a software application that was originally created as a virtual greeting card for Macintosh systems in 1984. In 1993, the concept was ported to the X Window System as Xsnow, and was included on a number of Linux distributions in the late 1990s.
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- "Xsnow" | 2021-12-08 | 155 Upvotes 97 Comments
π Lahaina Noon
LΔhainΔ Noon is a semi-annual tropical solar phenomenon when the Sun culminates at the zenith at solar noon, passing directly overhead (above the subsolar point). The term "lΔhainΔ noon" was coined by the Bishop Museum in HawaiΚ»i.
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- "Lahaina Noon" | 2023-11-02 | 135 Upvotes 14 Comments
π List of failed and over-budget custom software projects
This is a list of notable custom software projects which have significantly failed to achieve some or all of their objectives, either temporarily or permanently, and/or have suffered from significant cost overruns. For a list of successful major custom software projects, see Custom software#Major project successes.
Note that failed projects, and projects running over budget, are not necessarily the sole fault of the employees or businesses creating the software. In some cases, problems may be due partly to problems with the purchasing organisation, including poor requirements, over-ambitious requirements, unnecessary requirements, poor contract drafting, poor contract management, poor end-user training, or poor operational management.
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- "List of failed and over-budget custom software projects" | 2016-02-24 | 154 Upvotes 111 Comments
π Bibi-binary
The Bibi-binary system for numeric notation (in French systΓ¨me Bibi-binaire, or abbreviated "systΓ¨me Bibi") is a hexadecimal numeral system first described in 1968 by singer/mathematician Robert "Boby" Lapointe (1922β1972). At the time, it attracted the attention of AndrΓ© Lichnerowicz, then engaged in studies at the University of Lyon. It found some use in a variety of unforeseen applications: stochastic poetry, stochastic art, colour classification, aleatory music, architectural symbolism, etc.
The notational system directly and logically encodes the binary representations of the digits in a hexadecimal (base sixteen) numeral. In place of the Arabic numerals 0β9 and letters AβF currently used in writing hexadecimal numerals, it presents sixteen newly devised symbols (thus evading any risk of confusion with the decimal system). The graphical and phonetic conception of these symbols is meant to render the use of the Bibi-binary "language" simple and fast.
The description of the language first appeared in Les Cerveaux non-humains ("Non-human brains"), and the system can also be found in Boby Lapointe by Huguette Long Lapointe.
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- "Bibi-Binary" | 2023-11-02 | 128 Upvotes 47 Comments
- "Bibi-binary" | 2022-04-15 | 35 Upvotes 5 Comments