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magic 8 ball

Where Did the Idea for the Magic 8 Ball Come From?

Prince. musician Prince (Prince Rogers Nelson). Prince WELCOME 2 AMERICA tour. Exclusive North American Performances, 2010-11

7 Celebrities You Didn’t Know Were Inventors

Indian hijras participate in a religious procession in Gandhinagar, India, some 30 kilometers from Ahmedabad, on March 22, 2017. Hijra is a term used in South Asia which refers to transgender individuals who are born male. (gender identity, gender expression)

6 Cultures That Recognize More than Two Genders

Pluto. Crop of asset: 172304/IC code: pluto0010 at 270 degrees. The Changing Faces of Pluto. Most detailed view to date of the entire surface of the dwarf planet Pluto, constructed from multiple NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs 2002-03.

Wee Worlds: Our 5 (Official) Dwarf Planets

Flag of Bhutan

6 Small Kingdoms of the World

A mug shot taken by the regional Colombia control agency in Medellin

Pablo Escobar: 8 Interesting Facts About the King of Cocaine

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Why We Celebrate MLK Day

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eigenvalue Horner’s method method of false position Newton’s iterative method solution function continuity extremum singularity special function logistic function Riemann zeta function recursive function harmonic function Lagrangian function exponential function

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François Viète

French mathematician

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Numbers and Mathematics