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  2. Cargo 200 (code name) - Wikipedia

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    The first appearance of Cargo 200 is unknown, except that it came into use in the mid-1980s during the Soviet–Afghan War.The main theory of the term's origin is the Ministry of Defense of the USSR Order No. 200, issued during the on October 8, 1984, coincidentally setting the standardized maximum weight for the air transportation of a deceased soldier's body at 200 kilograms (440 lb).

  3. Two-letter country codes - Wikipedia

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    Two-letter country codes are used to represent countries and states (often both widely recognized and not) as a code of two letters. ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 is the main set of two-letter country codes that is currently used. This standard set of codes is a part of ISO 3166-1, also maintains a list of three-letter codes for countries (ISO 3166-1 ...

  4. Hamming code - Wikipedia

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    Hence the rate of Hamming codes is R = k / n = 1 − r / (2 r − 1), which is the highest possible for codes with minimum distance of three (i.e., the minimal number of bit changes needed to go from any code word to any other code word is three) and block length 2 r − 1.

  5. Diehard tests - Wikipedia

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    Count the ranks. Monkey tests Treat sequences of some number of bits as "words". Count the overlapping words in a stream. The number of "words" that do not appear should follow a known distribution. The name is based on the infinite monkey theorem. Count the 1s Count the 1 bits in each of either successive or chosen bytes.

  6. Novella - Wikipedia

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    There is disagreement regarding the number of pages or words necessary for a story to be considered a novella, a short story or a novel. [2] The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association defines a novella's word count to be between 17,500 and 40,000 words; [3] [4] at 250 words per page, this equates to 70 to 160 pages.

  7. Count of St. Germain - Wikipedia

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    The Count of St. Germain (French: Comte de Saint Germain; French pronunciation: [kɔ̃t də sɛ̃ ʒɛʁmɛ̃]; c. 1691 or 1712 – 27 February 1784) [3] whose real name and origins remain unknown, was a European adventurer who had interests and achievements in science, alchemy, philosophy, and the arts.

  8. Casualties of the September 11 attacks - Wikipedia

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    Media coverage, phone calls, and word of mouth quickly alerted anyone else to the seriousness of what was happening. Half personally believed their lives were in danger. [47] Because of what happened to the North Tower, many people in the South Tower chose to evacuate as a precaution.

  9. D-Day Daily Telegraph crossword security alarm - Wikipedia

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    In the months before D-Day the solution words 'Gold' and 'Sword' (codenames for the two D-Day beaches assigned to the British) and 'Juno' (codename for the D-Day beach assigned to Canada) appeared in The Daily Telegraph crossword solutions, but they are common words in crosswords, and were treated as coincidences.