Types of auctions

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English auction: This is what most people think of as an auction. Participants bid openly against one another, with each bid being higher than the previous bid. The auction ends when no participant is willing to bid further, or when … Read More

Physics in Antiquity

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Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. Also a mystery was the character of the universe, such as the form … Read More

Short evolution of Drupal

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Drupal is a content management system (CMS) and free and open source software released under the GNU General Public License and written in PHP. Dries Buytaert, the original developer of the project from 2000 at the University of Antwerp, defines … Read More

Domain name system

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On the Internet, the Domain Name System (DNS) associates various sorts of information with so-called domain names; most importantly, it serves as the “phone book” for the Internet: it translates human-readable computer hostnames, e.g. en.wikipedia.org, into the IP addresses that … Read More

Drawing in poker

A poker player is drawing if he has a hand that is incomplete and needs further cards to become valuable. The hand itself is called a draw. For example, in seven-card stud, if a player’s four of the first five … Read More

Computer data organizing

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Files and documents All information is kept (or “saved”) in the form of computer files. Files can contain different types of data: text, images, sounds, video, etc.. Depending on the type of data they contain, files can also be of … Read More

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