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  2. Lötschberg Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The Lötschberg Tunnel is a 14.612 km (9.079 mi) long railway tunnel on the Lötschberg Line, which connects Spiez and Brig at the northern end of the Simplon Tunnel cutting through the Bernese Alps of Switzerland. Its ends are at the towns of Kandersteg (2 km away) in the canton of Bern and Goppenstein in the canton of Valais. [2]

  3. Castle Roogna - Wikipedia

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    The Source of Magic. Followed by. Centaur Aisle. Castle Roogna is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the third book in the Xanth series. [1] The titular castle is also the residence of the present King of Xanth, within the narrative. This is the first edition of the book and was published by Del Rey Books in July 1979.

  4. Descartes Systems Group - Wikipedia

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    The Descartes Systems Group Inc. (commonly referred to as Descartes) is a Canadian multinational technology company specializing in logistics software, supply chain management software, and cloud -based services for logistics businesses. Descartes is perhaps best known for its abrupt and unexpected turnaround in the mid-2000s after coming close ...

  5. Talk:Chebyshev cube root - Wikipedia

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    It is asserted in the motivations (first paragraph of Section motivation that Chebyshev cube root behaves better than cubic root. It is a unfounded and non neutral original research, as, for each asserted inconvenience of the cubic root function one may provide a similar inconvenience of the Chebyshev cubic root , as it is defined in the page ...

  6. Square root - Wikipedia

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    Square root. Notation for the (principal) square root of x. For example, √ 25 = 5, since 25 = 5 ⋅ 5, or 52 (5 squared). In mathematics, a square root of a number x is a number y such that ; in other words, a number y whose square (the result of multiplying the number by itself, or ) is x. [1] For example, 4 and −4 are square roots of 16 ...

  7. Mathematics of paper folding - Wikipedia

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    Doubling the cube Doubling the cube: PB/PA = cube root of 2. The classical problem of doubling the cube can be solved using origami. This construction is due to Peter Messer: A square of paper is first creased into three equal strips as shown in the diagram. Then the bottom edge is positioned so the corner point P is on the top edge and the ...

  8. Pangrammatic window - Wikipedia

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    The shortest known naturally occurring pangrammatic window was discovered in October 2014 through an automated processing of Google's indexed webcorpus, found in a review of the movie Magnolia written by Todd Manlow on the website PopMatters, at 36 letters: [1] Further, fractal geometries are replicated on a human level in the production of ...

  9. Geis of the Gargoyle - Wikipedia

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    Plot. Seeking a spell that will restore the polluted river Swan Knee to a state of purity, guardian Gary Gargoyle finds himself face-to-face with the Magician Humfrey. Humfrey tells Gary to go and find the philter. Instead of serving the usual one year, Gary has to become a man with the help of Trent, who has gone into the brain coral's pool ...