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  2. Cogito, ergo sum - Wikipedia

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    The Latin cogito, ergo sum, usually translated into English as "I think, therefore I am", [a] is the "first principle" of René Descartes's philosophy. He originally published it in French as je pense, donc je suis in his 1637 Discourse on the Method, so as to reach a wider audience than Latin would have allowed. [1]

  3. Multiplicative digital root - Wikipedia

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    In number theory, the multiplicative digital root of a natural number in a given number base is found by multiplying the digits of together, then repeating this operation until only a single-digit remains, which is called the multiplicative digital root of .

  4. Evil demon - Wikipedia

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    In Meditation Three, Descartes is going to establish not only that there is a God but that God is not a deceiver. When Descartes first introduces the evil demon he says, "I will suppose therefore that not God, who is supremely good and the source of truth, but rather some malicious demon, had employed his whole energies in deceiving me."

  5. McCumber cube - Wikipedia

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    The McCumber Cube. The McCumber Cube is a model for establishing and evaluating information security (information assurance) programs.This security model, created in 1991 by John McCumber, is depicted as a three-dimensional Rubik's Cube-like grid.

  6. Heliocentrism - Wikipedia

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    Andreas Cellarius's illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica. Heliocentrism [a] (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.

  7. Hilbert cube - Wikipedia

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    The Hilbert cube is best defined as the topological product of the intervals [, /] for =,,,, …. That is, it is a cuboid of countably infinite dimension, where the lengths of the edges in each orthogonal direction form the sequence {/}.

  8. Logarithmic spiral - Wikipedia

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    Definition of slope angle and sector Animation showing the constant angle between an intersecting circle centred at the origin and a logarithmic spiral. The logarithmic spiral r = a e k φ , k ≠ 0 , {\displaystyle r=ae^{k\varphi }\;,\;k\neq 0,} has the following properties (see Spiral ):

  9. Rubik's Cube - Wikipedia

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    An illustration of an unsolved Rubik's Cube. The Rubik's Cube is a 3D combination puzzle invented in 1974 [2] [3] by Hungarian sculptor and professor of architecture Ernő Rubik. ...