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91Books on cryptography — have been published sporadically and with highly variable quality for a long time. This is despite the tempting, though superficial, paradox that secrecy is of the essence in sending confidential messages mdash; see Kerckhoffs principle. In… …
92Cyclomatic complexity — (or conditional complexity) is a software metric (measurement). It was developed by Thomas J. McCabe, Sr. in 1976 and is used to indicate the complexity of a program. It directly measures the number of linearly independent paths through a program …
93Fictitious force — Classical mechanics Newton s Second Law History of classical mechanics  …
94Modulo operation — Quotient (red) and remainder (green) functions using different algorithms. In computing, the modulo operation finds the remainder of division of one number by another. Given two positive numbers, a (the dividend) and n (the divisor), a modulo n… …
95Hole argument — In general relativity, the hole argument is a paradox which much troubled Albert Einstein on the road to his famous field equation. It has recently been reinterpreted by philosophers as an argument against manifold substantialism , a doctrine… …
96Faber-Jackson relation — The Faber Jackson relation is an early empirical power law relation between the luminosity L and the central stellar velocity dispersion sigma of elliptical galaxies, first noted by the astronomers Sandra M. Faber and Robert Earl Jackson in 1976 …
97Plutoid — A plutoid is a trans Neptunian dwarf planet or an object that is likely to be such a body and that has received a permanent name as a plutoid. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) developed this category of astronomical objects as a… …
98Fundamental plane (elliptical galaxies) — The fundamental plane for elliptical galaxies relates the effective radius, average surface brightness and central velocity dispersion.MotivationMany characteristics of a galaxy are correlated. For example, as one would expect, a galaxy with a… …
99History of Grandi's series — Geometry and infinite zerosGrandiGuido Grandi (1671 – 1742) reportedly provided a simplistic account of the series in 1703. He noticed that inserting parentheses into nowrap|1=1 − 1 + 1 − 1 + · · · produced varying results: either:(1 1) + (1 1) + …
100Edward Wright (mathematician) — For the 20th century mathematician, see Edward Maitland Wright. Edward Wright Title page of the first edition of Wright s Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599) …
