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THE UMASK

THE UMASK

The file mode creation mask: the nine bits it clears, five arguments that name opposite things — and why umask 022 is not chmod 755

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THE UNICODE SPACE

THE UNICODE SPACE

1 114 112 code points in 17 planes: 159 866 characters, 137 468 private, 814 730 free

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UUID

UUID

thirty-six characters: where the version sits, where the variant sits, and what each of the eight versions is made of

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VIDEO CARRIERS

VIDEO CARRIERS

nine formats at true scale — and the frame that kept growing after the carrier stopped

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VIDEO FORMATS

VIDEO FORMATS

who published each standard, when, the names it goes by, and what has to be squeezed

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WORD EXPANSION

WORD EXPANSION

Four steps in a fixed order — and only two of them can change how many fields reach the command

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GREEK ALPHABET

GREEK ALPHABET

24 letters · names and where science uses them

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BENFORD’S LAW

BENFORD’S LAW

the first digit of a number: why a one turns up more than six times as often as a nine, and in which sets that is true

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THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX

THE BIRTHDAY PARADOX

how many people it takes for two of them to share a birthday — and the same count for codes and fingerprints

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REPEATING DECIMALS

REPEATING DECIMALS

which fractions stop, which run for ever, and how to know the length of the repeat without dividing

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TN, VA, IPS AND OLED

TN, VA, IPS AND OLED

what differs inside the cell · and a paper describing each mode

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THE FUJITA SCALE

THE FUJITA SCALE

six categories of tornado damage — and the two different winds assigned to them

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