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  2. List of typographical symbols and punctuation marks - Wikipedia

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    Typographical symbols and punctuation marks are marks and symbols used in typography with a variety of purposes such as to help with legibility and accessibility, or to identify special cases. This list gives those most commonly encountered with Latin script. For a far more comprehensive list of symbols and signs, see List of Unicode characters.

  3. Check mark - Wikipedia

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    In Finnish, stands for väärin, i.e., "wrong", due to its similarity to a slanted v. [citation needed] The opposite, "correct", is marked with , a slanted vertical line emphasized with two dots [5] (see also commercial minus sign ).

  4. Negative and positive rights - Wikipedia

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    Negative rights exist unless someone acts to negate them. A positive right is a right to be subjected to an action of another person or group. In the framework of the Kantian categorical imperative, negative rights can be associated with perfect duties, while positive rights can be connected to imperfect duties. [citation needed]

  5. False positives and false negatives - Wikipedia

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    The false positive rate is equal to the significance level. The specificity of the test is equal to 1 minus the false positive rate.

  6. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    Order of operations. In mathematics and computer programming, the order of operations is a collection of rules that reflect conventions about which operations to perform first in order to evaluate a given mathematical expression . These rules are formalized with a ranking of the operations. The rank of an operation is called its precedence, and ...

  7. Prohibitory traffic sign - Wikipedia

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    These are usually to speed up traffic through an intersection or due to street cars or other right of ways or if the intersecting road is one-way. Indicated near-universally by an arrow making the prohibited turn overlaid with a red circle with an angular line crossing it.

  8. Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia

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    Bentham defined as the "fundamental axiom" of his philosophy the principle that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong." He became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism.

  9. Sides of an equation - Wikipedia

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    The expression on the right side of the "=" sign is the right side of the equation and the expression on the left of the "=" is the left side of the equation. For example, in. x + 5 is the left-hand side (LHS) and y + 8 is the right-hand side (RHS).