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Easier way to prevent numbers from showing in exponent notation

I'm going to rely on the saying that no question is a dumb question, but I have a slightly dumb …

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Scala - Prefix Unary Operators

I've recently given Scala a second chance, and started with the project I always implement (in functional or pseudo-functional languages): …

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Probability notation

I want to ask you about the notation in probability. I know that P(A | B) = the conditional probability that …

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Differences between [in, out] and [out, retval] in COM IDL definitions

In some of the IDL I work with I have noticed that there are 2 conventions for marking return values in …

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What are the distinctions between the various symbols (*,&, etc) combined with parameters?

Possible Duplicate: c++ * vs & in function declaration I know that this probably seems like an incredibly elementary question to …

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What does "options = options || {}" mean in Javascript?

I came over a snippet of code the other day that I got curious about, but I'm not really sure …

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(log n)^k = O(n)? For k greater or equal to 1

(log n)^k = O(n)? For k greater or equal to 1. My professor presented us with this statement in class, …

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A #define in C with three dots

#define LOGI(...) ((void)__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_INFO, "native-activity", __VA_ARGS__)) #define LOGW(...) ((void)__android_log_print(ANDROID_LOG_…

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python SyntaxError with dict(1=...), but {1:...} works

Python seems to have an inconsistency in what kind of keys it will accept for dicts. Or, put another way, …

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Compact MATLAB matrix indexing notation

I've got an n-by-k sized matrix, containing k numbers per row. I want to use these k numbers as indexes …

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